The Roman Invasion of Britain

"Celebrated historian-cum-author Bettany Hughes hosts this three-episode documentary program, which chronicles a little-known but unspeakably tragic period of English history. The film travels back in time to the hundred or so years immediately preceding the birth of Christ, when Emperor Claudius and other Roman rulers began a series of systematic attempts to add Britain to the Roman Empire. Unthinkable brutalities followed, long forgotten but rediscovered in the early 21st Century via unearthed artifacts that Hughes discusses onscreen. The film presents a wealth of available evidence that it uses to recreate details of the said events - including biographical profiles of Queen Boudicca and others, key battle reenactments, and much more."