Here are a few of our favorite series from Netflix in no particular order. You will probably notice that they are heavily influenced by my husbands love of military history. I enjoyed them too.
1. Danger UXB - Set in WWII England, UXB is unexploded bomb. This is a series about a team of engineers who are sent in to disarm the UXB.
2. Sandbaggers - This is also British, about goverment intelligence agencies in during the cold war. It deals with the harsh realities of beurocracy.
3. Sharpe's Rifles - This time the British are fighting the French in Spain in the Napoleonic era at a time when rifles are specialized equipment.
4. Frontier House - a recreation of life on the western frontier of the US. It is interesting to see how modern people deal with some of the restrictions of frontier life.
5. Colonial House - a recreation of life in colonial New England. Again it is an intersting social study.
These last two prompted a lot of discussion about how people deal with modernity and how that is so different from the past. Many of the difficulties that the people had in these series was accepting social structures and norms.
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