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England's Great Wall

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44min | Aired on Nov 05, 1997 | TV-G | CC |

Stretching roughly 80 miles across northern England, Hadrian's Wall split the country in two during ancient times. Did the Roman army build the wall to protect their new province, or to build up the phenomenal ego of Emperor Hadrian?

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