Timewatch

Season 6, Episode 2

Episode Title: Faces of Cromwell

Air Date: 1987-02-12

Overview:

Views of Oliver Cromwell vary as much today as when Parliament asked him to become King in 1657: a tyrant, a repressed religious bigot who murdered a king; a patriot, civilised with a tremendous sense of humour, and conscience in matters of state and religion. How do modern historians view the parliamentarian who some have called the greatest Englishman?