Name: The Village
Released: 2013-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: John Simm, Maxine Peake, Rupert Evans

TV Show · Drama · History

John Simm and Maxine Peake star in this family saga that tells the story of 20th Century England, as great historical events are refracted through the perspectives of a Derbyshire village's inhabitants.

2013 · 59m

Starring John Simm, Maxine Peake, Rupert Evans

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Drama series. 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.

58m
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

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...

57m
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

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

58m
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Drama series. 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.

58m
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

Drama series. Joe's brief leave from the front has come to an end. He has tried hard to conceal his shell shock from the family, but Grace knows that something is badly wrong.

58m
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

It is 1920; the war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The inhabitants debate how best to honour their dead, dividing the community.

58m