Michael Wood

Known for ActingBorn 1948-07-23 (age 77)Moss Side, Manchester, England, UK

Michael David Wood, OBE FSA (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013.Read more

Movies & web series

Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

Legacy - The Origins of Civilization

Conquistadors

The Story of India

In Search of Shakespeare

The Story of China

Michael Wood's Story Of England

In The Footsteps of Alexander the Great

Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail

In Search of Myths and Heroes

In Search of the Dark Ages

In Search of the Trojan War

King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

How China Got Rich

Ancients

中国改革开放的故事

Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor

The Home Invaders

Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman

The Great British Story: A People's History

Michael Wood: In search of Beowulf

Christina: A Medieval Life

Gilbert White: the Nature Man

In Search of Myths and Heroes

Art of the Western World

Michael Wood on Beowulf