Reddit reviews Druids

Given your nom de plume, Vercingetorix, you have probably already seen this info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vercingetorix

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Alise-Sainte-Reine_statue_Vercingetorix_par_Millet.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Statue-vercingetorix-jaude-clermont.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwTIjnIOnME - The movie is fairly cheesy (the YouTube title is weird), but it is interesting to watch.

The book of the same title by Morgan Llywelyn is better: https://www.amazon.com/Druids-Morgan-Llywelyn/dp/0688088198/

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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 1 - In the Beginning<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU1dKfMIEUQ<br />
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In the debut episode of the series, the program looks at how the Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture so distinctive.  [This goes into DNA, particularly as Bryan Sykes envisioned the Celts.  Some people who study DNA discount Sykes.]<br />
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For 800 years, a proud, vibrant, richly imaginative warrior people swept ruthlessly across Europe. The ancient Greeks called them &quot;Keltoi&quot; and honored them as one of the great barbarian races. Follow their fascinating story from their earliest roots 2,500 years ago through the flowering of their unique culture and their enduring heritage today, enhanced with stunning reconstructions of iron-age villages, dramatizations of major historical events and visits to modern Celtic lands.<br />
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The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture so distinctive.<br />
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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 2 - Heroes in Defeat<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVovskAh5QA<br />
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In the third [sic - second] episode of the series, the program examines the heyday of the Celts, the La Tene era. It was tribal, and women were often the leaders: warriors, bards, druids, artists and craftsmen. Their little known settlements as well as their massive hill forts tell of inhabitants who traded within and beyond Europe. But then the Celts clashed with the Romans and highly developed culture fell apart.<br />
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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 3 - Sacred Groves<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsHghGwdWNg<br />
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In the third episode of the series, This episode discusses Celtic mythology, legend, and belief, namely the pagan religion, Druidism, and then the introduction of Christian faith to the Irish and Scots.<br />
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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 4 - From Camelot to Christ<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfY4-2zKY-g<br />
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In the third [sic: fourth] episode of the series, the program looks at the slow collapse of the Roman Empire saw the arrival of new cultures which threatened the Celts. The program claims that the British king, Vortigern, invited the Anglo Saxons into Britain to help fight the Picts but they betrayed his trust and gradually took over the island.<br />
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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 5 - Legend and Reality<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_l5yFlEYds<br />
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In the fifth episode of the series, the program looks at the 8th century onwards when the Celts were hammered by invasions by the Vikings and then the Normans. Following the Reformation in the 16th century, Celtic communities in Wales, Ireland and Brittany were marginalised in the push for political and religious unity in England and France.<br />
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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 6 - A Dead Song?<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl7X4A_mNeU<br />
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In the sixth episode of the series, this program examines the emergence, history, meaning and threats to the Celtic identity. Today the struggle to define an identity continues. This final segment is a discussion on the degree to which modern people may view themselves as Celts, with examples of modern Celtic-inspired practices like military discipline and warfare, the Welsh Eisteddfod, modern Irish music and art, and the efforts of the Bretons and Cape Bretoners to preserve their native languages in the face of societal assimilation by their ruling nations.<br />
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Neil Oliver has a thick Scottish burr to his voice, so sometimes he's a bit difficult to understand until one gets used to the cadences with which he speaks.<br />
The Celts Blood Iron And Sacrifice With Alice Roberts And Neil Oliver - Episode 1 of 3<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-itb5NwDU<br />
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The Celts: Blood, Iron And Sacrifice with Alice Roberts And Neil Oliver - Episode 2 of 3<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGI6gud8MUo<br />
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The Celts: Blood, Iron And Sacrifice With Alice Roberts And Neil Oliver - Episode 3 of 3<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhkuLeobhXo<br />