Welcome to our Documentary List. Please find below a list of Mary Rose and Tudor documentaries with some basic details about them. In addition, these can be viewed via the hyperlinks in the 5th column. There are also some short videos.
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Season / Episode | Title | Duration | Hyperlink | TV Channel | Type | Year | Production Company | Director / Producer | Narrator / Presenter | Ships or Archaeological Site Featured | Comments | Air Date | |
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Drain the Oceans | 2.7 | Secrets of the Spanish Armada | 46:54 | Secrets of the Spanish Armada | Nat Geo | TV doco | Spain's attempted conquest of England fails when its Armada is defeated; by draining the ocean, it is revealed that the English stole shipbuilding technology to build their own empire. Draining the ocean near Newfoundland reveals a preserved Basque galleon trading in lucrative whale oil. The Spanish empire relies on powerful ships like this to bring back valuable cargo, like silver and tobacco, from the New World. But when emerging rival England wants a share of this wealth, the Spanish attack. Draining an Armada wreck off the coast of Ireland reveals an extraordinary battle for control. | 05/08/2019 | |||||
Mary Rose Britain & the Sea | 2 | Invasion & Defence | 59:20 | Invasion & Defence | BBC | TV doco | 2013 | BBC Arts Production | Rosie Schellenberg | David Dimbleby | Mary Rose | David Dimbleby continues his voyage round Britain, sailing his boat Rocket along the south east coast from Hampshire to Kent. This was the front line coast, the edge of Britain essential to its defence and the first point of attack for invasion forces. From the great battleships of Nelson to the sea forts of Henry VIII, this is a story that embraces Britain's darkest and most heroic moments. | 24/11/2013 |
Mary Rose Chronicle | 1980.6 | The Wreck of the Mary Rose, Part 1 | 49:39 | The Wreck of the Mary Rose | BBC | TV doco | 1980 | John Selwyn Gilbert | Mary Rose | ||||
Mary Rose Chronicle | 1982.2 | The Wreck of the Mary Rose, Part 2 | 49:49 | The Wreck of the Mary Rose, Part 2 | BBC | TV doco | 1982 | John Selwyn Gilbert | Mary Rose | ||||
Mary Rose Chronicle | 1982.3 | The Wreck of the Mary Rose, Part 3 | 49:40 | The Wreck of the Mary Rose III | BBC | TV doco | 1982 | John Selwyn Gilbert | Mary Rose | ||||
Mary Rose Chronicle | 1982.4 | Raising the Rose | 47:02 | Raising the Rose | BBC | TV doco | 1982 | John Selwyn Gilbert | Mary Rose | ||||
Mary Rose Chronicle | 1984.4 | The year they raised the Mary Rose | 63:13 | The year they raised the Mary Rose | BBC | TV doco | 1984 | John Selwyn Gilbert | Mary Rose | ||||
Mary Rose Combat Ships | 1.10 | Wooden Walls | 42:00 | Wooden Walls | History | TV doco | Mary Rose | Voyage back to the age when wooden warships were the ultimate fighting machines. From the Mary Rose, one of the first great combat ships, to the HMS Victory, which tattered Napoleon's plans of invading Britain in 1805, celebrate history's brave commanders and crews who rode these wooden wonders into battle. Witness how technological advancements in Europe and America led to longer, faster, and more heavily armed vessels. | |||||
Mary Rose | Ghosts of the Mary Rose | 44:50 | Ghosts of the Mary Rose | Channel 5 | TV doco | 2008 | Windfall Films | Martin Gorst | Hugh Montgomery | Mary Rose | Documentary about Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose which sank in battle in July 1545. The programme explores the possible causes for the ship sinking and features a computerised re-enactment of the disaster. It takes a look at the restoration work being carried out on the Mary Rose and examines three skeletons belonging to crew members in an attempt to discover who the men were and their roles on board the ship. | ||
Mary Rose Great British Ships | 1.2 | The Mary Rose: Secrets From the Deep | 43:27 | Great British Ships - The Mary Rose | Channel 5 | TV doco | 2018 | Windfall Films | Luke McLaughlin | Rob Bell | Mary Rose | Henry VIII's great warship went down nearly 500 years ago. | |
Mary Rose Secret History | 18.1 | Skeletons of the Mary Rose - The New Evidence | 47:00 | Skeletons of the Mary Rose | Channel 4 | TV doco | 2019 | Avanti Media | Ian A Hunt / Steven Perring | Hugh Quarshie / Alex Hildred / Onyeka Nubia | Mary Rose | A unique, cutting-edge scientific investigation reveals surprising new information about the crew of Henry VIII's favourite warship, redefining what we thought we knew about Tudor England. | 19/03/2019 |
Mary Rose Timewatch | Timewatch – Secrets of the Mary Rose | 49:00 | Secrets of the Mary Rose | BBC | TV doco | 2006 | BBC | John Hayes Fisher | Michael Praed | Mary Rose | Timewatch reveals the story behind Henry VIII's favourite warship, which sank during an engagement with the French in 1545 and lay on the seabed for 437 years. Archaeologists and scientists visit the site of the wreck to discover what was left behind and demonstrate how the bones of the sailors on board could be analysed to reveal how they lived and died. | ||
Mary Rose Timewatch Guide | The Mary Rose: A Timewatch Guide | 59:09 | The Mary Rose: A Timewatch Guide | BBC | TV doco | 2015 | BBC | Dan Snow | Mary Rose | Historian Dan Snow explores the greatest maritime archaeology project in British history - the Mary Rose. Using 40 years of BBC archive footage Dan charts how the Mary Rose was discovered, excavated and eventually raised, and what the latest research has revealed about this iconic ship and her crew. Dan also investigates how the Mary Rose project helped create modern underwater archaeology, examining the techniques, challenges and triumphs of the divers and archaeologists involved. | |||
Mary Rose | What sank the Mary Rose | 50:00 | What sank the Mary Rose | Channel 4 | TV doco | 2000 | Darlow Smithson? | Peter Bate | Stephen Rashbrook | Mary Rose | |||
Mary Rose | What really sank the Mary Rose | 46:24 | What really sank the Mary Rose | History | TV doco | 2008 | Red Lobster Media Productions | Howard Foster | Jonathan Keeble | Mary Rose | |||
Digging for Britain | 1.4 | The Tudors | 51:23 | Digging for Britain 1.4 The Tudors | BBC | TV doco | 2010 | Acorn Media UK | James Gray | Alice Roberts | Mary Rose | In the final episode of the series, Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of the Tudor age, a time that saw momentous changes across all aspects of British life. Along the way, Alice visits excavations at Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch, where the Bard began his career and Romeo and Juliet was first performed. Alice also joins a team sifting through Shakespeare's rubbish at his last home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and finds revealing clues about his carefulness with money. In a remote corner of Wales, Alice meets a team of archaeologists uncovering the brutal realities of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, a conflict that would change the very fabric of Britain. On the muddy banks of the Thames, Alice discovers the rich history of a forgotten royal palace, which was home to the Tudor kings and queens. And she learns about a mysterious Tudor shipwreck which dates from this age of exploration and trade. | 10/09/2010 |
Digging up Britain's Past | 1.2 | Henry VIII's Lost Palace | 44:47 | Henry VIII's Lost Palace | TV doco | Helen Skelton and Alex Langlands join a new dig at Elsyng Palace, one of nearly 60 royal residences owned by Henry Vlll and one of his favourite homes during his last decade. The dig unearths more clues to the palace's architecture and splendour, and of Henry's life and times, with finds including the remnants of a working oven and a 16th-century groat - worth about four pence in Tudor times - featuring a portrait of Henry's face. | 12/01/2019 | ||||||
Shipwrecks | 1 | Britain's Sunken History - Home Waters to High Seas | 58:50 | Britain's Sunken History - Home Waters to High Seas | BBC | TV doco | Sam Willis | Mary Rose & Spanish Armada | In this three-part series, maritime historian Dr Sam Willis looks at how and why the shipwreck came to loom so large. He begins with the embarrassing story of the top-heavy Mary Rose, the freak wrecking of the Spanish Armada and the terrifying real-life disasters at sea that inspired two of the greatest of all castaway tales - Shakespeare's The Tempest and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. | 02/09/2013 | |||
Seapower | The Tudor Navy From The Mary Rose To The Armada | 50:13 | The Tudor Navy From The Mary Rose To The Armada | TV doco | |||||||||
Discovering Britain - Mary Rose | 46:37 | Discovering Britain - Mary Rose | Channel 4 | TV doco | Larry Lamb & Maureen Lipman | ||||||||
Tony Robinson's History of Britain | 1 | History of Britain - The Tudors | 45:36 | History of Britain - The Tudors | TV doco | Tony Robinson | Mary Rose | ||||||
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Mary Rose Britain & the Sea | 2 | Invasion & Defence | 59:20 | BBC | TV doco | David Dimbleby | |||||||
Mary Rose Great British Ships | 1.2 | The Mary Rose: Secrets From the Deep HD - view | 43:21 | The Mary Rose: Secrets From the Deep HD - download | Channel 5 | TV doco | 2018 | Windfall Films | Luke McLaughlin | Rob Bell | Mary Rose | Henry VIII's great warship went down nearly 500 years ago. | |
Mary Rose Secret History | 18.1 | Skeletons of the Mary Rose HD - view | 47:00 | Skeletons of the Mary Rose HD - download | Channel 4 | TV doco | 2019 | Avanti Media | Ian A Hunt / Steven Perring | Hugh Quarshie / Alex Hildred / Onyeka Nubia | Mary Rose | A unique, cutting-edge scientific investigation reveals surprising new information about the crew of Henry VIII's favourite warship, redefining what we thought we knew about Tudor England. | 17/03/2019 |
Mary Rose Timewatch Guide | The Mary Rose: A Timewatch Guide HD - view | 59:09 | The Mary Rose: A Timewatch Guide HD - download | BBC | TV doco | 2015 | BBC | Dan Snow | Mary Rose | Historian Dan Snow explores the greatest maritime archaeology project in British history - the Mary Rose. Using 40 years of BBC archive footage Dan charts how the Mary Rose was discovered, excavated and eventually raised, and what the latest research has revealed about this iconic ship and her crew. Dan also investigates how the Mary Rose project helped create modern underwater archaeology, examining the techniques, challenges and triumphs of the divers and archaeologists involved. | |||
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Escape to the Country - Mary Rose | 4:40 | Escape to the Country - Mary Rose | Short Video | ||||||||||
How the Mary Rose was Lifted | 4:08 | How the Mary Rose was Lifted | Short Video | ||||||||||
Mary Rose Bluepeter Oct 2016 | 4:51 | Mary Rose Bluepeter Oct 2016 | Short Video | ||||||||||
Mary Rose Reborn | 26:06 | Mary Rose Reborn | Short Video | ||||||||||
Mary Rose Revealed | 15:20 | Mary Rose Revealed | Short Video | ||||||||||
Mary Rose Sprays Switched Off For First Time | 2:56 | Mary Rose Sprays Switched Off For First Time | Short Video | ||||||||||
Projecting the Past | 14:40 | Projecting the Past | Short Video | ||||||||||
Recreation of the Rose | 11:13 | Recreation of the Rose | Short Video | ||||||||||
Mary Rose Live | 1 | Human Endeavours - Team Red | 47:25 | Human Endeavours - Team Red | Video | 2017 | Programme one from University of Portsmouth students studying BSc Television and Broadcasting. | ||||||
Mary Rose Live | 2 | Revealing The Mary Rose - Team Yellow | 44:54 | Revealing The Mary Rose - Team Yellow | Video | 2017 | Discover how the museum came to be and listen in as we speak to all the people that helped make the Mary Rose museum the attraction it is today | 05/06/2017 | |||||
Mary Rose Live | 3 | Life on the Mary Rose - Team Blue | 51:36 | Life on the Mary Rose - Team Blue | Video | 2017 | |||||||
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History Hack | 61 | History Hack 061 Mary Rose with Chris Dobbs 6th May 2020 | 42:45 | History Hack 061 Mary Rose | Podcast | Head of Interpretation and Maritime Archeology for the Mary Rose Trust, Chris Dobbs returns by popular demand to discuss his forty years working alongside the Mary Rose. Discovery, excavation, salvage, conservation and presentation; just how did this forgotten ship become one of the most impressive maritime exhibit in the world? | 06/05/2020 | ||||||
Discovery | Saving the Mary Rose 6th March 1995 | 27:32 | Saving the Mary Rose | BBC Sounds | Podcast | 1995 | Nick Rankin | Report from Portsmouth on the salvage of King Henry VIII's ship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545. The ship had been buried in the soft muddy seabed and was discovered after a storm in 1970 unsettled it. Looking after the ship following her salvage has involved a decade-long process and the use of some of the latest scientific technology. | 06/03/1995 | ||||
Talking Tudors | 39 | Talking Tudors with Alex Hildred 4th July 2019 | 77:23 | Talking Tudors with Alex Hildred | Podcast | Natalie Grueninger | Natalie Grueninger speaks with Alex Hildred about Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose and the Mary Rose Museum. https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PBB6589C2TQHZ | 04/07/2019 | |||||
Witness History | The Raising of the Mary Rose 3rd Oct 2017 | 9:01 | The Raising of the Mary Rose | BBC Sounds | Podcast | 2017 | Susan Hulme | King Henry VIII's favourite warship sank during a naval battle over 400 years ago. But the wreck and its contents were preserved in silt for centuries and finally raised to the surface in October 1982. Susan Hulme has spoken to Christopher Dobbs, one of the archaeologists who helped excavate the Mary Rose while she lay on the sea bed, and who is still uncovering its secrets today. | 03/10/2017 | ||||
Womans Hour | Mary Rose Diver - Alex Hildred - 9th Dec 2019 | 8:53 | Podcast | 09/12/2019 | |||||||||
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Conserving a Tudor Collection | 69:23 | Conserving a Tudor Collection | Webinar | ||||||||||