Neil Oliver

Neil Oliver

Neil Oliver is a Scottish television presenter, freelance archaeologist, conservationist, and author. He is best known as a presenter of several BBC historical and archaeological documentary series, including A History of Scotland, Vikings, and Coast.

  • Title: Neil Oliver
  • Popularity: 3.6
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1967-02-21
  • Place of Birth: Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
  • Homepage: http://www.neiloliver.com
  • Also Known As:
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Neil Oliver Movies

  • 2017
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    The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia

    The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia

    1 2017 HD

    The story of the 1773 highland migrants who left Scotland to settle in Nova Scotia.

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  • 2014
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    The Quest for Bannockburn

    The Quest for Bannockburn

    1 2014 HD

    Neil Oliver and Tony Pollard set out to solve one of the biggest puzzles in battlefield archaeology. 700 years ago, Robert the Bruce's overwhelming...

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  • 2014
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    The Search for Alfred the Great

    The Search for Alfred the Great

    1 2014 HD

    Neil Oliver is given exclusive access to a team of historians and scientists investigating the final resting place of Alfred the Great. Alfred's...

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  • 2018
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    Who Put the Klan in the Ku Klux Klan?

    Who Put the Klan in the Ku Klux Klan?

    8 2018 HD

    In this surprising documentary, archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver examines racism in the Deep South and the Scots who first occupied it who...

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  • 2015
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    Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

    Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

    1 2015 HD

    Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at...

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  • 2009
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    Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer

    Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer

    6.7 2009 HD

    Cleopatra - the most famous woman in history. We know her as a great queen, a beautiful lover and a political schemer. For 2,000 years almost all...

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  • 2016
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    Scotland and the Klan

    Scotland and the Klan

    1 2016 HD

    The role of Scots in shaping the concept of the American Dream is a story often celebrated but could Scottish settlers have also had a hand in...

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  • 2014
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    The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers

    The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers

    1 2014 HD

    The development of the Maxim machine gun and its effects on a remote Highland community.

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  • 2017
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    Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney

    Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney

    1 2017 HD

    Neil Oliver, Chris Packham, Andy Torbet and Dr Shini Somara join hundreds of archaeologists from around the world who have gathered in Orkney to...

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  • 2019
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    Scots in China

    Scots in China

    1 2019 HD

    Neil Oliver presents a documentary exploring the role of Scots in the China of today.

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  • 2011
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    A History of Celtic Britain

    A History of Celtic Britain

    1 2011 HD

    In four chapters, largely based on and illustrated with archaeological finds and sites, Neil Oliver explains how, as far as is known, the Iron Age...

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  • 2012
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    Vikings

    Vikings

    7.6 2012 HD

    Vikings is a 2012 BBC television documentary series written and presented by Neil Oliver charting the rise of the Vikings from prehistoric times to...

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  • 2013
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    Coast Australia

    Coast Australia

    6.5 2013 HD

    Coast Australia follows renowned Scottish archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver on his very first trip to Australia, as he and a diverse group of...

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  • 2016
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    Coast New Zealand

    Coast New Zealand

    1 2016 HD

    Neil Oliver takes a fascination journey around the coast of New Zealand, uncovering stories that make us the island nation that we are today.

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  • 2018
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    Cunk on...

    Cunk on...

    7.88 2018 HD

    Landmark mockumentary-maker Philomena Cunk traces the history of Britain and Earth.

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  • 2011
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    The Last Explorers

    The Last Explorers

    1 2011 HD

    Archaeologist and writer Neil Oliver presents a series on the golden age of exploration, charting the routes of contact that drew together the...

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  • 2015
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    The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice

    The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice

    7.4 2015 HD

    Three-part documentary series in which anthropologist professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Neil Oliver go in search of the Celts - one of the...

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  • 2016
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    Robot Wars

    Robot Wars

    4.8 2016 HD

    Original robots Sir Killalot, Matilda, Dead Metal and Shunt are back for the rebooted series presented by Dara Ó Briain and Angela Scanlon

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  • 2008
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    A History of Scotland

    A History of Scotland

    9 2008 HD

    Presented by Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland is a television series first broadcast in November 2008 on BBC One Scotland and later shown UK-wide...

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  • 2018
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    Rise of the Clans

    Rise of the Clans

    1 2018 HD

    Series following an epic struggle for power in medieval Scotland, told from the point of view of the feuding clans.

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  • 2013
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    Sacred Wonders of Britain

    Sacred Wonders of Britain

    1 2013 HD

    Neil Oliver goes on a journey to reveal the sacred face of Britain, an ancient landscape of belief and ritual that still lies hidden just below the...

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  • 2011
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    A History of Ancient Britain

    A History of Ancient Britain

    10 2011 HD

    Neil Oliver tells the epic story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history—the beginnings of our...

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  • 2020
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    Blood of the Clans

    Blood of the Clans

    10 2020 HD

    Neil Oliver presents a drama-documentary series telling the tales of Scotland's most epic and bloody conflicts and the characters who made their mark...

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  • 1970
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    Blood of the Clans

    Blood of the Clans

    1 1970 HD

    In four chapters, largely based on and illustrated with archaeological finds and sites, Neil Oliver explains how, as far as is known, the Iron Age...

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  • 1970
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    Blood of the Clans

    Blood of the Clans

    7.6 1970 HD

    Vikings is a 2012 BBC television documentary series written and presented by Neil Oliver charting the rise of the Vikings from prehistoric times to...

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