Movies: Helen Castor

  • 2015
    Joan of Arc: God's Warrior

    Joan of Arc: God's Warrior (2015)

    Joan of Arc: God's Warrior

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    Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith and today, mor...

    Joan of Arc: God's Warrior
  • 2016
    The Real Versailles

    The Real Versailles (2016)

    The Real Versailles

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    As BBC Two premieres its lavish new drama set in the sumptuous surroundings of Versailles, Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor tell the real-life stories behind one of the world's grandest buildings. They reveal the colourful world of sex, drama and intrig...

    The Real Versailles
  • 2015
    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc (2015)

    Joan of Arc

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    Could a nineteen-year-old girl change the course of history simply by faith? From ordinary farm girl to extraordinary hero, the life of Joan of Arc was one of conviction and courage. Fifteenth-century France was devastated by an ongoing war in which ...

    Joan of Arc
  • 2012
    She-Wolves: England's Early Queens

    She-Wolves: England's Early Queens (2012)

    She-Wolves: England's Early Queens

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    Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitane, through the Late Middle Ages with Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou an...

    She-Wolves: England's Early Queens
  • 2016
    Shakespeare's Tomb

    Shakespeare's Tomb (2016)

    Shakespeare's Tomb

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    Historian Dr. Helen Castor explores the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s burial place. Will the first- ever scientific investigation discover why his tombstone's only inscription is a curse against any man who ‘moves my bones’? - PBS...

    Shakespeare's Tomb
  • 2011
    A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter

    A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter (2011)

    A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter

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    Helen Castor introduces a film about Thomas More's daughter Margaret, showing her revolutionary intellectual spirit and how the ideas that shaped her education changed the cultural life of England forever....

    A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More’s Daughter
  • 2013
    Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death

    Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death (2013)

    Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death

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    In Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth, marriage, and death. Why were physi...

    Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death