Michael Wood's Story of England (2010)

Name: Michael Wood's Story of England
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Carenza Lewis, Michael Wood

Documentary

Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in Leicestershire in the heart of England - a place that lived through the Black Death, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution and was even bombed in World War Two.

IMDb rating: 8.1 (128 votes)
Episode average: 8.2 +0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: Mini-series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

8.18 avg 6 episodes 7.7 → 8.1 59 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Romans to Normans	7.7	21
2	Domesday to Magna Carta	8.4	16
3	The Great Famine and the Black Death	8.6	15
4	Peasants' Revolt to the Tudors	8.4	15
5	Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution	7.9	14
6	Victoria to the Present Day	8.1	13