Heroes and Villains (TV series)

Heroes and Villains
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Genre	Drama
Written by	Clare Saxby Tony Etchells Nick Murphy James Wood Andrew Grieve Lyall B. Watson Colin Heber-Percy
Directed by	Nick Murphy Tim Dunn Nick Green Andrew Grieve Gareth Edwards Arif Nurmohamed
Starring	James Saito Rory McCann Brian McCardie Daragh O'Malley Tom Burke Anthony Flanagan Steven Waddington
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer	Matthew Barrett
Producer	Mark Hedgecoe
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Release	11 November 2007 (2007-11-11) – 29 March 2008 (2008-03-29)
Related
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
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Heroes and Villains is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour-long episode features a different historical figure, including Napoleon I of France, Attila the Hun, Spartacus, Hernán Cortés, Richard I of England, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The statements at the beginning of each episode read: "This film depicts real events and real characters. It is based on the accounts of writers of the time. It has been written with the advice of modern historians." In the United States the show was aired on The Military Channel and was called Warriors.^[1]