List of Romanichal-related depictions and documentaries
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List of Romanichal-related depictions & documentaries
Television
My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding - a controversial reality television show which allegedly portrays the lives of Romanichal Gypsies and Irish Travellers in the United States, but the show has been widely denounced and criticized for racism, and non-Gypsy actors spreading misinformation about the Romanichals.
Gypsy Girl (2001) CITV — Children's television series, based on the books by Elizabeth Arnold, and centers around the title character Freya Boswell and her family.
Ashes to Ashes Series 2 2009 Episode 2 — A British television police drama series set in the 1980s. A police officer tries to clear her name when she is involved in the accidental death of an English Romanichal. She uncovers a pre-meditated plot to murder him with a depressant overdose. The episode does include some stereotypical elements as the plot unfolds; namely the plot device of an old Romani clairvoyant and friction between the police and the Romani camp. However these stereotypes are turned on their head as there are elements of police corruption and the local doctor who was obsessed with the victims wife is found guilty of poisoning.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 3, Elementary, Dear Data (December 5, 1988) — In the opening scene in the holodeck playing the part of Sherlock Holmes Data exposes an ambassador for the king of Bohemia. Claiming he was robbed in London by gypsies who in turn also took a sensitive photograph of the king and his mistress.
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