Queen Victoria's empire

Bryers, Paul. (Added Author). Burgess, Paul. (Added Author). Sutherland, Donald, 1935- (Added Author). Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) (Added Author). Devillier-Donegan Enterprises. (Added Author). Brook Lapping Productions. (Added Author).

Summary: Under Queen Victoria, the force of England's industrial and military power propelled the British Empire to its zenith. Prime Ministers Gladstone and Disraeli, and adventurers such as Livingstone and Rhodes, shaped a distinctively British imperialism. This Empires special, which uses personal accounts and historical reenactments in Britain, India, and Africa to reveal the frequent clash of personality and culture that would mark Victoria's reign. It is the story of how a small island nation would come to control three-fourths of the world's trade and one-fifth of its population in one of the greatest empires the world has known.

Record details

ISBN: 0790763230 (set)
Physical Description: videorecording
videocartridge
2 videocassettes (110, 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; [Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media, Inc. [distributor], c2001, [2004].

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally broadcast on the television program Empires.
Formatted Contents Note:	part 1. Engines of change ; Passage to India -- part 2. The Moral crusade ; The scramble for Africa.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Writer, producer, director, Paul Bryers ; editor, director, Paul Burgess ; composer, Matthew Scott ; directors of photography, John Christie and Lee Pulbrook ; narrator, Donald Sutherland.
Language Note:	Close captioned. cc