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Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing clues to an unsolved case: a concentration camp...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Caroline Sturdy Colls

Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy and international relations in Victorian Britain.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saul David

Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society?...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Crumpton

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Scofield

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hannah Sieh

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Olusoga

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. While her service to her country is...

Genre: History

Cast: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathryn Warner

Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in Britain - approximately 14 people a week. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tamsin Greig

Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a team of experts, Worsley recreates the most...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Iris Zhang

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon T. Roden

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Garner

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Flynn

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Sweet

Aubrey Manning sets out on a journey to study the changing face of Britain's countryside

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aubrey Manning

In an ambitious and groundbreaking approach to drama and history featuring dramatic reconstruction, historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

On the edge of London stands Hampton Court, one of Britain's biggest palaces and most popular tourist spots, attracting almost a million visitors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tracy Borman

Taking a 'bottom-up' view of history by exploring everyday lives of the nations ordinary people.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Xand van Tulleken

In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alice Roberts

Ten celebrities are about to leave their 21st century lives and everything they know behind to become time travellers. Our ten intrepid travellers...

Genre: Reality

Cast: Cassie Newland

Series tracing the events of 1940, when Britain faced alone the threat of invasion and defeat by Hitler's forces.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sue Johnston

This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of the UK's greatest writers - Jane Austen, Thomas...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gyles Brandreth

History series telling the glorious and gory story of the city's rise to power.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Suzannah Lipscomb

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Mary Berry discovers the rich history of Great Britain's greatest stately homes through the prism of food.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Berry

Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at a dynamic decade. 1980s Britain changed in everything from politics and sport to fashion and popular culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dominic Sandbrook

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Meades

Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history. She uncovers forgotten witnesses, re-examines old evidence and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Humphries

The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne-Marie Duff

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew Marr