S02E01 | The Word

Episode 2 | Great British Photography Challenge

The photographers face a speed assignment in the boxing gym, go in search of documenting life in a Birmingham market and are ...

S10E4: Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction | Timeshift

Documentary which investigates the success of Scandinavian crime fiction, from Stieg Larsson's bestse...

Series 1 | Peaky Blinders

Birmingham, 1919: Thomas Shelby controls the Peaky Blinders, one of the city's most feared criminal organisations, but his ambitions go beyond runn...

Episode 1 | Great British Photography Challenge

The search for Britain's best amateur photographer begins with a blustery Brighton seafront, a nature assignment in the New F...

Beauty in fashion photography | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

David Hurn was one of the first of the new breed of fashion photographers, who used to shoot in his own s...

Hollywood | Age of the Image

James Fox explores the major development of film that occurred in Hollywood, LA and the filmic techniques that were born.

Media | Bitesize Secondary

Using extracts from the BBC archive, this programme goes behind the scenes with the special effects team on Doctor Who and with the Life on Mars c...

On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

Drawing on the BBC's rich archive, this documentary reveals the working practices, lives and opinions of some of the greatest photographe...

S1E1: An Unearthly Child: An Unearthly Child | Doctor Who (1963-1996)

After discussing their pupil Susan, two teachers follow her to a junkyard. They meet her grandfather, t...

S1E4: An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker | Doctor Who (1963-1996)

The Doctor and his companions use guile and cunning to escape death at the hands of their Stone Age captors....

Series 1 | Line of Duty

When Steve Arnott is transferred to a police anti-corruption unit, he finds his target is the city's top detective, Tony Gates. Can Gates really be a...

1: 1800-1914: Fixing the Shadows | The Genius of Photography

How a technical problem was solved in 1839, paving the way for practical application.

2: 1918-1945: Documents for Artists | The Genius of Photography

Following World War I, photography was the medium of the age, and used to promote radical utopia.

3: Right Place, Right Time | The Genius of Photography

Photography at its best makes viewers eyewitnesses to events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima.

4: Entertainers | Icons

Kathleen examines the lives of Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie. She uncovers their greatest achievements and explores...

4: Paper Movies | The Genius of Photography

The three decades from the late 1950s onwards were the golden age of photographic journeys and colour photography.

5: Television | Inventions That Changed the World

Jeremy Clarkson looks at the television. He looks at television inventors John Logie Baird and Philo T Farnsworth and it's ...

5: We Are Family | The Genius of Photography

How the medium translates personal relationships into photographic ones, and what happens when photographers turn their cameras ...

6: Snap Judgements | The Genius of Photography

A look at the current state of the art, from phone cameras to digital post-production, and the rediscovery of 19th century tec...

Albert Watson | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

The difference with Albert Watson's landscape photography is that he manipulates the images using any means necessary; in...