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1. Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
29 min | Documentary, History
The series follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate the everyday farm life from the age of the Stuarts; they wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s.
Stars: Owen Teale, Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands
Votes: 313
2.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
May
(2005)
Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Keith Paynes
Votes: 8
3.
Coast (2005– )
Episode:
Invaders of the Isles
(2013)
TV-PG | 59 min | Documentary
The team returns to visit more locations around the nation's shoreline, beginning by exploring a diverse range of invasions. Nick Crane heads to the Channel Islands to learn about the ... See full summary »
Directors: Rowan Crawford, Dan Davis, James Mair, Dick Sharman | Stars: Nicholas Crane, Tessa Dunlop, Ruth Goodman, Andy Torbet
Votes: 9
4.
Victorian Farm Christmas (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2009)
Documentary
Peter buys a new ram for the flock, Ruth makes mincemeat for Christmas pies. Preparing for the harvest celebration.
Director: Naomi Benson | Stars: Rupert Acton, Peter Ginn, Eve Goodman, Ruth Goodman
Votes: 15
5.
Victorian Farm Christmas (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2009)
Documentary
The Victorian farm team attempts to restore the blacksmith's forge, find a yule log, winter-proof the house, and make Christmas crackers.
Stars: Rupert Acton, Ivan Day, Peter Ginn, Eve Goodman
Votes: 17
6. Victorian Farm (2009)
60 min | Documentary, History
In this unique project, historian Ruth Goodman as well as archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn immerse themselves in the life of the Victorian farmer as he would have lived on the Acton Scott Estate.
Stars: Stephen Noonan, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 738
7. Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
In this 12-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman go back in time to the early 1900s to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year.
Stars: Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands, Stephen Noonan
Votes: 584
8.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
March
(2005)
Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stuart Peachey
Votes: 9
9.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
June
(2005)
Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Ronald Hutton, Alex Langlands
Votes: 9
10.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
July
(2005)
Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stuart Peachey
Votes: 9
11.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
August
(2005)
Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stuart Peachey
Votes: 9
12. Victorian Farm Christmas (2009)
60 min | Documentary
Victorian Farm Christmas looks into the lives of 19th century farmers and shows you how to make traditional gifts, food, games and decorations.
Stars: Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Stephen Noonan, Alex Langlands
Votes: 338
13.
Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)
Episode:
Christmas
(2013)
Documentary, History
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Ronald Hutton, Geraldine James
Votes: 13
14.
Victorian Farm (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, History
Emergency repairs demand the team go back to DIY basics with the help of the woodsman, the blacksmith and the basketmaker.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 27
15.
Victorian Farm (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2009)
TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary, History
As their year on the Victorian Farm draws to an end, the team have to perform the most crucial task on the calendar: bringing in the wheat harvest.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands
Votes: 24
16.
Victorian Pharmacy (2010)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2010)
Documentary
Directors: Pete Cooksley, Martin Kemp | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Nick Barber, Ruth Goodman, Tom Quick
Votes: 8
17.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2010)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
The trio establish their domicile, scrubbing a flagstone floor and cleaning out a clogged chimney. They build a hayrick to put up hay, hire a stonemason to make a trough, learn to thatch, ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Peter Ginn, Eve Goodman, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 26
18.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.10
(2011)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
It's June - and the team head up to Dartmoor to discover the ways in which Edwardian farmers took advantage of this unique and spectacular landscape to add to their income.
Director: Chris Mitchell | Stars: Rupert Acton, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 18
19. Secrets of the Castle (2014)
60 min | Documentary, History
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a castle.
Stars: Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold, Paul McGann
Votes: 389
20.
Victorian Farm (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, History
It’s springtime, and there are lambs and pigs to be delivered and animal midwifery to be mastered. The team turn to Victorian science to save their struggling crops.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 24
21.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
November
(2005)
29 min | Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Keith Paynes
Votes: 12
22.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.12
(2011)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
August brings to an end the year on the farm; weather dictates the harvest and the seaside brings much needed fertilizer.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alun Howkins, Alex Langlands
Votes: 20
23.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2010)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
Alex and Peter milk goats and train the ploughhorses. They begin a market garden of strawberries. Ruth pickles apples, salts a ham, and smokes bacon. Alex and Peter press apples to cider, ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Peter Ginn, Eve Goodman, Ruth Goodman, Ronald Hutton
Votes: 23
24.
Wartime Farm (2012)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2012)
TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary
As Europe falls to the Nazis and British trade vessels are diverted to send supplies to the Russians, the British government tightens its grip on farms like Manor Farm, expecting more and more home-grown food, drink and clothing.
Director: Naomi Benson | Stars: John Simm, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 18
25.
Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2013)
Documentary, History
Director: Giulia Clark | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Ronald Hutton, Geraldine James
Votes: 18
26.
Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2013)
Documentary, History
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Ronald Hutton, Geraldine James
Votes: 18
27.
Secrets of the Castle (2014)
Episode:
The Castle's Community of Skills
(2014)
Documentary, History
The team delve deeper into the secrets of the skilled communities who built medieval castles. The stonemasons working on the castle walls are dependent on blacksmiths, whose metalwork was magical to the medieval mind-set.
Director: Blythe Tinker | Stars: Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold, Paul McGann
Votes: 14
28.
Secrets of the Castle (2014)
Episode:
Beyond the Castle Walls
(2014)
59 min | Documentary, History
The Team take a look at the castle's place in the wider medieval world. 13th century Europe was a busy, developing, connected place, where work, trade, pilgrimages and Crusades gave people ... See full summary »
Director: Giulia Clark | Stars: Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold, Paul McGann
Votes: 15
29.
Victorian Farm Christmas (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2009)
Documentary
Finally it's time for the Christmas meal. Ruth, Alex and Peter light the forge for the first time, find a Christmas tree for the banquet, and do their Christmas shopping. The team bid a fond farewell to Acton Scott.
Stars: Rupert Acton, Ivan Day, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
Votes: 15
30.
Full Steam Ahead (2016)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2016)
58 min | History
The team of historians examine how the golden age of steam changed Britain in unexpected ways, starting with domestic life. From slate roof tiles to the coal fire the railways shaped peoples homes.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Philip Glenister, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 24
31.
Full Steam Ahead (2016)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2016)
58 min | History
The team look at how the railways impacted on people, those who built them, the railway staff and industries across the country and at how the railway companies began to develop ways to transport people as well as goods.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Philip Glenister, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 19
32.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
December
(2005)
29 min | Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Ronald Hutton, Alex Langlands
Votes: 10
33.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
January
(2005)
29 min | Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stuart Peachey
Votes: 10
34.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
February
(2005)
29 min | Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stuart Peachey
Votes: 9
35.
Tales from the Green Valley (2005)
Episode:
April
(2005)
Documentary, History
Director: Peter Sommer | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stuart Peachey
Votes: 8
36. Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)
59 min | Documentary, History
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.
Stars: Geraldine James, Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold
Votes: 418
37. Wartime Farm (2012)
TV-14 | Documentary
Wartime Farm, is an eight-part British historical docuseries in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted. First broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012.
Stars: John Simm, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 407
38.
Victorian Farm (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, History
Peter tries to build pigsties, and Ruth tackles the laundry. A ram and a Shire horse arrive. Ahead lies a Victorian Christmas of decorations, cooking, and church carols.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 30
39.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2010)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
Ruth prepares for the arrival of the farm's pigs and works on the privy, while Alex and Peter compare ploughing with horses to ploughing with the world's oldest working tractor. Peter ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Mitchell | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stephen Noonan
Votes: 20
40.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.9
(2010)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
Summer brings the tourists, so the farm provides strawberries and clotted cream.
Director: Naomi Benson | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stephen Noonan
Votes: 19
41.
Coast (2005– )
Episode:
Joy of the Coast
(2013)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary
The presenters seek out the ideal locations to enjoy their personal passions. Nick Crane heads to the Inner Hebrides to attempt a mountaineering challenge on the Isle of Skye, and reveals ... See full summary »
Directors: Katherine Arthy, Rowan Crawford, James Mair, Dick Sharman | Stars: Nicholas Crane, Tessa Dunlop, Ruth Goodman, Ian McMillan
Votes: 7
42.
Victorian Pharmacy (2010)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2010)
Documentary
The pharmacy enters a period of new inventions and new regulations, when, in 1868, pharmacies were regulated by law for the very first time.
Directors: Pete Cooksley, Martin Kemp | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Nick Barber, Ruth Goodman, Tom Quick
Votes: 7
43.
Wartime Farm (2012)
Episode:
Episode #1.8
(2012)
TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary
Episode 8 1945 - In this final episode, the team faces a harvest under the conditions of summer 1945. Five years of constant farming have degraded the quality of Britain's fields, threatening crop yields.
Stars: John Simm, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 15
44.
Full Steam Ahead (2016)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2016)
58 min | History
The historians take a trip on the legendary Flying Scotsman as they continue their exploration of the age of steam, discovering how the railways revolutionised communication with the transportation of mail.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Philip Glenister, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 14
45.
Full Steam Ahead (2016)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2016)
58 min | History
The team examine how a combination of increased leisure time and affordable rail travel opened up new freedoms for working-class Victorians, from trips to the seaside to fossil-hunters exploring Britain's prehistoric past.
Director: Chris Mitchell | Stars: Philip Glenister, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 15
46. Full Steam Ahead (2016)
60 min | History
Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn bring back to life the golden age of steam, exploring how Victorian railways helped to shape modern Britain.
Stars: Philip Glenister, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 176
47.
Victorian Farm (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, History
The team sets about restoring a cottage, thresh the previous summer’s wheat crop, and make cider and preserves. A flock of Shropshire ewes arrives on the farm.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands
Votes: 33
48.
Victorian Farm (2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2009)
TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary, History
Lengthening summer days allow for a few breaks in the routine, but there are still plenty of tasks to be done. Weather permitting, it’s also time for the hay harvest.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Stephen Noonan, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
Votes: 23
49.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.11
(2011)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
July brings the harvest, cherries and potatoes. Ruth goes salmon fishing on the River Tamar with a seine net. Peter and Alex pick cherries from tall ladders and Ruth prepares cherry preserves.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Alex Cumming, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands
Votes: 18
50.
Edwardian Farm (2010–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.8
(2010)
59 min | Documentary, Adventure
April arrives and time is divided between the land and the sea.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Stephen Noonan
Votes: 21