Mike Loades

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Mike Loades is a British writer, [1] [2] television presenter, [3] director, [4] and military historian. [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Mike Loades
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)writer, television presenter, director, military historian.

Career

As a television presenter/host he is best known for the BBC series' Time Commanders (2003-2005) and Weapons That Made Britain (2004) for Channel 4, Medieval Tournament: Making of a Knight (2003) for Channel 4 and Discovery Channel, Weapon Masters (2007) for Discovery Networks, and Going Medieval (2012) for H2. [9] [10] Loades appears regularly in television history documentaries as a military historian/historical weapons specialist. [11] He also works as a director for television [12] and as a historical consultant for the video games industry. [13] Additionally he works as a fight choreographer/action arranger, [14] who specializes in historical combat.

Loades has had several books published on arms and armour topics in addition to one about the history of dogs. He provided commentary about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in a short documentary for the videogame Total War: Rome 2 in addition to directing other short documentaries for the franchise - The Throwing War and Legionary Kit. While referring to Assassin's Creed , which he had worked as a consultant to Black Flag , he said that he was "blown away" by the work that was put in by the video game industry to make their work more historically authentic. [6] [7]

For Ages of Empire IV, he wrote and directed nineteen short films that were embedded in the game as mini-documentaries titled Hands-On-History [15]

Filmography

Loades has directed on related history in several television drama/documentary specials, including:

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: Titles by Mike Loades". www.pen-and-sword.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Mike Loades". United States. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Going Medieval (TV Movie 2012) , retrieved 4 December 2018
  4. ↑ "Mike Loades". IMDb. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  5. ↑ Gaffney, Thomas (22 December 2011). "What's On Today". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  6. 1 2 Nunneley, Stephany (27 November 2013). "Total War: Rome 2 mini documentary provides a history lesson on The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest". VG247. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  7. 1 2 Campbell, Colin (22 July 2013). "Truth and fantasy in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag". Polygon. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Keith Ducklin; John Waller (2001). Sword fighting: a manual for actors and directors. Robert Hale. p. 9. ISBN   978-0-7090-6703-0.
  9. ↑ Nicola Lees (1 September 2010). Greenlit: Developing Factual TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch: The Professional Guide to Pitching Factual Shows. A&C Black. ISBN   978-1-4081-2333-1.
  10. ↑ "Going Medieval". IMDb .
  11. ↑ "Loades' documentary film work as a historian". IMDb .
  12. ↑ "Loades' credits as Director". IMDb .
  13. ↑ "Loades' work with video games industry". 23 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Loades' as a fight choreographer". IMDb .
  15. ↑ Fuller, John (23 November 2021). "LionTV enters game world". LionTV. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
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