Channel 4 Documentaries: The Spartans

📺Channel 4 Schools

started2nd Jun 2009

ended4th Jun 2009

1 school year

episodes3

duration50 mins

subject 🏛️History

age rangeAge 13-16 & Age 16-19

languageenIn English

The Spartans is a Channel 4 schools TV series from the 2000s, covering history for secondary school and further education students.

documentary series presented by Bettany Hughes, originally broadcast in the evening on Channel 4 in November and December 2002, and repeated in the 4Learning schedule in Summer 2009

Channel 4 documentaries repeated on 4Learning (2003-2009)

Overview

Ballet Changed My Life (2006) • Because I Sing (2005) • Bollywood Star (2004) • Britain AD (2008) • Britain BC (2008) • Castle (2008) • The Celts (2009) • Chancers (2004) • Children Behaving Badly (2005) • College Girls (2005) • The Cutting Club (2005) • Elizabeth's Pirates (2009) • Empire (2008) • Extremes (2008) • Fact or Fiction (2009) • The First World War (2004) • How Music Works with Howard Goodall (2007) • How TV Changed Britain (2009) • Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (2003) • Howard Goodall's Great Dates (2003) • Howard Goodall's Twentieth Century Greats (2005) • Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice (2005) • Judah and Mohammad (2006) • Jump Britain (2005) • King Midas' Feast (2009) • Leonardo's Dream Machines (2008) • Men of Iron (2004) • Orange Rockcorps (2008) • Pioneer House (2008) • The Play's the Thing (2006) • Preachers to Be (2006) • Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival: Living the Dream (2004) • The Princes in the Tower (2008) • Rappin' at The Royal (2006) • Regency House Party (2004) • Rome: The Model Empire (2009) • The Rough Guide to Choreography (2005) • The Sculpture Diaries (2009) • Seven Ages of Britain (2008) • Siamese Survivors (2004) • The Spartans (2009) • Speed Machines (2009) • Sticks and Stones (2005) • The Story of the Novel (2004) • That'll Teach 'Em (2004) • The Theory of Everything (2004) • The Thin Club (2005) • The Unteachables (2005) • The War of the World (2008) • We Are Together (2008) • Weapons That Made Britain (2008) • Who Really Runs the World (2007)

(Dates are for daytime repeats, not original broadcasts for adults)

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