Games Britannia(2009)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2009-12-07
Average Runtime: 59m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
Historian Benjamin Woolley unravels the cultural and social significance of popular games in Britain from the Iron Age to the Information Age.
Keywords
video gameboard gamegaming
Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 3E01
Dicing with Destiny
Air Date: 2009-12-07
Games held a spiritual element from ancient times that by the late Middle Ages gave way to gambling. Victorian backla...
E02
Monopolies and Mergers
Air Date: 2009-12-14
Britain exported the moral instructional board game to America, where it was adapted to celebrate wealth and free ent...
E03
Joystick Generation
Air Date: 2009-12-21
Fantasy role-playing games developed predominantly in America while the British begin turning their attention to comp...
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