Rowan Atkinson the two more sequels "Blackadder the Third" (1987) (set in the Regency era), and "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989) (set in World War I). The "Blackadder" series became one of the most successful of all BBC situation comedies, spawning television specials including "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" (1988), "" (1988), and later "" (1999), which was set at the turn of the Millennium. The final scene of "Blackadder Goes Forth" (when Blackadder and his men go "over the top" and charge into No-Man's-Land) has been described as "bold and highly poignant". During the 2014 centennial of the start of World War I, Michael
Historical period drama films set in Asia of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—"Portrait of Hell", for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. "Jidaigeki" show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. "Jidaigeki" films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of "jidaigeki", which equates to historical period drama. In Japan, the term , also commonly spelled ""chambara"", meaning "sword fighting" movies, denotes the genre called samurai cinema in English, and is roughly