The Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American cities. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered.

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles

An unusual example of a film that will be interesting to any ordinary American.

The Bronze Age collapse is perhaps one of the greatest disasters in human history and also one of the least understood. Delve into the theories as to how this ancient apocalypse happened and evidence that supports them.

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

First attempt posting here, hope I'm doing this correctly.

A particularly low/no drama reenactment, experimental archaeology documentary. Pretty cozy stuff but still very informative look at a bygone era and lifestyle.

"Edwardian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in twelve parts. It depicts a group of historians recreating the running of a farm during the Edwardian era. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television and filmed at Morwellham Quay, an historic port in Devon. The farming team was historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn."

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_Farm

Unfortunately this is one series that has never seen its way to dvd, only VHS NTSC.

1993 TV series by Dick Warner.

From Ballinasloe to Drumshanbo part 1: "Forgotten Locks"

In our initial outing, we discover Clonmacnoise, perhaps Ireland's finest ruins. Here a monastery founded in 545 grew through centuries of medieval turmoil. First burned by Vikings in 844, it was coveted by both the Irish and Danes for its artistic and material wealth, and battled over for centuries. Today, the stunning waterside vista is home of the grave of Rory O'Conor, last High King of Ireland.

In their struggle to defeat German and Japanese espionage efforts, the Allied intelligence agencies of the KGB, CIA, MI6 and DGSE are all transformed into modern, global, espionage forces. But even as East and West work together to defat the Axis, they are fighting the first underground battles of a new Cold War against one another.

An intimate look at the solitary life of an unhoused man who’s haunted by his past.

This is available for free on the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) website.

Not to be confused with “Ukraine on Fire,” a totally different documentary which tells Vladimir Putin’s point of view on the same events, released shortly after with a surely-coincidentally-confusingly-similar name.