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The Village

2013 · 2 seasons · 12 episodes · Ended · BBC One

Drama

TMDB 7.2 · 20 votes

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The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second continued the story into the 1920s. However, it was not commissioned for a third series. An epic drama charting the turbulent times experienced by one English village throughout the 20th century; births, deaths, political events and rebellions are among the events that occur during the time. Bert Middleton lives across the entire 100-year period, and his story from boyhood to old age forms the crux of the story, seen via flashbacks as Bert is interviewed in the present day by a documentarian working on a project about the second eldest man in the United Kingdom and his village.

Episodes

  • S01E01Episode 12013-03-3161m

    Bert is the second oldest man in Britain, and a film is being made about his life and his village. He takes us back to the summer of 1914, when he was 12 years old.

  • S01E02Episode 22013-04-0761m

    It is January 1915; the Middleton farm has fallen on very hard times, and John is drinking heavily. A strange incident then takes place at the manor house.

  • S01E03Episode 32013-04-1461m

    Conscription is introduced for the first time in British history. Call up papers are delivered throughout the village, and soldiers requisition Big Molly.

  • S01E04Episode 42013-04-2161m

    Bert decides that winning the Rondo, an annual wheel barrow race on the cricket field, is a matter of life or death: if he wins, then Joe will be kept safe.

  • S01E05Episode 52013-04-2861m

    Joe's brief leave is over. He has tried hard to conceal his shell shock but Grace knows that something is wrong. Bert's actions have disastrous consequences for the family.

  • S01E06Episode 62013-05-0561m

    The war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The debate over how best to honour their dead divides the community.

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