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The Adventure of English (2002)

Adventure · Documentary · Drama

The history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg; from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a global language.

IMDb rating
8.3 (257 votes)
Seasons
1
Language
EN
Type
Mini-series
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Seasons

Season 1 (2003)

8.28 avg 8 episodes 8.2 → 8.8 45 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 13 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 10 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 11 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 10 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 10 votesEp 6: 8.8 · 9 votesEp 7: 8.2 · 10 votesEp 8: 8.8 · 9 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Birth of a Language8.213
2English Goes Underground8.010
3The Battle for the Language of the Bible8.111
4This Earth, This Realm, This England8.010
5English in America8.110
6Speaking Proper8.89
7The Language of Empire8.210
8Many Tongues Called English8.89

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