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Episode 3 | The Trench (2002)

The 10th Battalion of the East Yorkshire regiment lost over men in just one day during the Battle of Ancre, far more than they had suffered cum...

Episode 2 | The Trench (2002)

After a week, the 23 modern-day volunteers are still struggling to adapt, especially with the strict water rationing that faced the 10th Battal...

Episode 1 | The Trench (2002)

Fear, fatigue and cold daily life in a First World War trench is relived in this three-part series. Based on diaries kept by the 10th Battalion...

08: Zimmermann Telegram | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

How a decrypted telegram pushed America into World War One, while prompting the construction of a permanent fenc...

07: The Fight for Baku's Oil | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

As part of a series looking at stories beyond the trenches of Europe, BBC Azeri's Leyla Najafli explores ho...

06: Episode 6 | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

World War One was a truly global war. This series looks at events beyond Europe's Western Front, exploring some of the les...

05: The Indestructible Warship, Tanzania | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

100 years ago, it was the fearsome German warship that ruled the waters of Lake Tanganyika, tod...

04: Siege of Tsingtao | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

The only battle to be fought in the Far East during WWI had an explosive and lasting impact on Sino-Japanese relat...

03: The Famine of Mount Lebanon | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

This episode tells the forgotten story of starvation and disease that ravaged Mount Lebanon during WWI, ...

02: The Nurse of the Mediterranean | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

Malta saved the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers in World War I. Dr Kevin Fong explores how it ...

01: Race to Kamina | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

Uncovering the real story of the first Allied victory in World War One. Akwasi Sarpong travels to Togo in West Africa.

2: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

The Allies are in retreat, but the Navy can only pick up a few soldiers and Churchill is advised to make peace to save the rest.

Cpl David Livingstone Diary Extract | Days That Shook the World

A recreation of a extract from the diary of Cpl David Livingstone taken from the 11th of November 1918, showi...

03: War Machine | Our World War

At the Battle of Amiens, a tank commander and his crew must storm through enemy lines and fight against the odds to bring the war to an end.

02: Pals | Our World War

A soldier in the Manchester Pals regiment finds himself fighting both the Germans and a system that requires him to execute one of his pals.

01: The First Day | Our World War

Drama revealing real experiences of British soldiers in the First World War. In August 1914, the Royal Fusiliers reach the town of Mons in ...

Time Treasures - Poppy Day | Watch

The past is explored through artefacts and reconstructions. An explanation of why poppies are used as a remembrance symbol for people who ...

Balloon | Ballon (2018)

The Strelzyk family attempt to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. In German with English subtitles.

S02E03: 1940 | Turn Back Time

They must pull together to survive and do their bit for the war effort.

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

In a one-off precursor to his Historyonic's series, Nick Knowles gets a behind-the-scenes look at why a Yorkshire-born zealot called Guy Fa...

06: The Gunpowder Plot | Landmarks

This programme tells the story of the plot to blow up King James I.

6: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious object...

Episode 2 | Rebel Heart

Ernie is released fr prison, but the tranquility of the life he led before the Easter rising is short lived.

20th Century Wrap: 4: 1950s: Britain - A Time of Change? | History File

Schools history programme looking at 1950's, a period of great change. How did British people react ...

Episode 2 | Firebombers

It's 1986, and the arson group have ramped up their attacks, taking the firebombing campaign over the border into England. The government enlist the ...

Episode 1 | Firebombers

It's 1979, and four holiday homes in Wales are torched in one night. It’s the beginning of an arson campaign. The story of Meibion Glyndwr told by th...

3: Rogues Gallery | Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

Sam Willis looks at urban crime, fraud and corruption in the 18th century, uncovering a fascinating rog...

S2E2: The Gunpowder Plot | Lucy Worsley Investigates

On 5 November 1605, a group of conspirators planned to blow up parliament. Lucy Worsley investigates the Gunpowder Plot,...

Episode 3 | Elizabeth I's Secret Agents

A look at the world's first secret service. England has a new monarch and Robert Cecil exposes the most infamous terrorist threat in ...

S10E3: Witchfinder General | Secret History

Documentary account, drawn from court records and testimonies, of how Matthew Hopkins and John Stern convicted hundreds of men, w...

S7E1: Great Train Robbery | Secret History

This program tells the real story of one of the most enduring crime news stories of the century, the great train robbery on August...

4: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot | Plague, Fire, War and Treason

In 1605 conspirators plotted to blow up Parliament and kill King James I. This film seeks out the truth behind...

4: Dick Turpin | Historyonics

Nick Knowles reveals the truth behind the romantic reputation of highwaymen. He introduces arguably the most famous highwayman of all, Duck Tur...

S3E2 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the asy...

5: New Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well during...

4: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nati...

Abuses of Justice | Witch Hunt

In late 16th century Scotland, a young woman named Geillis Duncan was accused of selling her soul to the devil.

The Secret of Lincoln Jail: A Time Team Special

Sir Tony Robinson joins a dig at Lincoln Castle, uncovering the dark secrets of a Victorian experiment in prison justice that...

Crime and Punishment | What the Victorians Did For Us

Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. In this progr...

Treatment of Aboriginals in Australia | Empire with David Olusoga

David explains the horrendous treatment of the Aboriginal peoples of Tasmania by the British.

Transportation of Convicts to Australia | Empire with David Olusoga

David explains how Britian sent their problem convicts abroad to the colonies for cheap labour, and many ...

Episode 2 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga reveals how the loss of the American colonies led to the colonisation of Australia and how the Indian indenture system wa...

Episode 1 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire, from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of colonies in America, th...

3: Deliverance | Dunkirk (2004)

The town is under siege, with tens of thousands still waiting to be evacuated and daylight sailing suspended.

02: The Golden Ocean | Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

In a series on the Royal Navy's role in British history, Dan Snow shows how the country came ...

4: Our People | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken...

3: Resistance | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the danger...

1: A People Stolen | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensla...

2: A Precious Cargo | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating m...

Episode 2 | Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame

David Hayman presents the second of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Episode 1 | Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame

David Hayman presents the first of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

03: Gandhi | Primary History

An introduction to the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-olds.

01: Black Britons 1 | Primary History

An introduction to the history of black people in Britain, from the Romans to the slave trade. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-...

02: For God and for Gold | Landmarks

In 1992 an American girl flies home from London. While waiting at the airport she encounters the ghost of Christopher Columbus, who tell...

01: Across the Ocean Sea | Landmarks

In 1992 an American girl flies home from London. While waiting at the airport she encounters the ghost of Christopher Columbus, who tell...

3: Pomp and Power | Lost World of the Raj

Set against the backdrop of British India from the 1920s to Independence in 1947, this third and last programme in the series tells...

1: Home from Home | Lost World of the Raj

The first episode recreates the era of the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life i...

2: Sex and Sensibility | Lost World of the Raj

Raj society was based on a formal order of precedence, but behind the scenes there was a great deal of flirtation, fun, affair...

6: Freedom | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.

S12E02: Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution | Timeshift

Robert Winston explores the extraordinary transformation of the hospital from Victorian workhouse to modern c...

S12E01: Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery | Timeshift

The shocking story of health before the NHS. In the early 20th century, getting treated if you were ill was a...

6: The Scientist | Colosseum

One of the most famous scientists of the ancient world, Galen of Pergamon, makes a name for himself as a doctor for gladiators in the arena.

Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination for s...

5: End of an Era | The Courage to Fail

Christiaan Barnard became the most famous surgeon in the world by successfully transplanting a human heart. Yet so disastrous were the...

4: A Gift of Life | The Courage to Fail

Richard Herrick, a young man dying of kidney disease, is about to make medical history. Surgeons will save his life by transplanting ...

3: Doers Not Thinkers | The Courage to Fail

By the early 1970s, surgeons were riding the crest of a wave. But controversy and uncertainty surrounded one of the commonest ope...

2: Into the Heart | The Courage to Fail

Crippled children, blue and breathless with congenital heart disease, were sent home to die. Operating on the inside of the heart was...

1: Nerves of Steel | The Courage to Fail

1830 - a smoke-filled room, crowded with spectators. Their eyes are fixed on a man, restrained on a wooden table, with a leg ravaged...

3: Brave New World | Pandemic 2020

From the Amazon to churches in the US and the slums of Delhi, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.

4: Florence Nightingale | Great Britons (1990)

Philippa Stewart, biographer of Florence Nightingale, narrates her life story through on-location reports from places she live...

3: Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She explo...

2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at th...

5: The Triumph of Art | Civilisations

Simon Schama examines how traditions developed in the years following the Renaissances.

3: The Great Famine and the Black Death | Michael Wood's Story of England

Michael Wood's portrait of one village across the whole of English history reaches the 14th century...

5: Medicine and Surgery | History File

Programme concentrates on looking at medicine and surgery, and looks at the rise of surgery and inventions such as X-rays, the stethos...

4: Medicine and War | History File

This prog looks at the relationship between medicine and war. Does war help or hinder medicine? Surviving records from WWI help us to unde...

3: Medicine and Government | History File

Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship between government and medicine an...

5: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File

The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why was it taken up and acted on, so ...

4: Medicine and Long Term Change | History File

Paul Viragh presents programme on medicine and long-term change - Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood is usually ...

Huguenots and silk | The Great British Sewing Bee

Claudia Winkleman explains the history of the Huguenots, their fleeing to Britain and how they affected the silk trade.

S06E09: David Mitchell | Who Do You Think You Are?

David Mitchell goes in search of his Scottish roots, and attempts to find out whether his family were involved in the High...

6: Always on Sunday | Rainbow City

Sixth episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...

4: Beards and Turbans | Rainbow City

Forth episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring ...

3: A Better Fortune | Rainbow City

Third episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...

2: Why You Marry? | Rainbow City

Second episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Err...

1: What Sort of Boy? | Rainbow City

First episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring E...

Episode 2 | Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

Lenny looks back on his coming of age and explores how he and other second and third-generation British-born Caribbean kids began...

Episode 1 | Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

Lenny Henry is joined by a host of famous faces as he celebrates his Caribbean-British heritage and explores how his culture has ...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The Sharma family reflect on their time-travelling journey through British Asian history and discover what has changed for second and...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The kids dance at a daytimer and get language lessons, while mum and dad work hard to turn a profit, and the whole family start to re...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The Sharmas' time-travels enter the 1970s. Opening a shop, they join an explosion of South Asian entrepreneurship in Birmingham - fro...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The Sharma family experience life as a South Asian family in 50s Britain, from hard factory shifts to adapting their cooking to suit ...

3: The Batory | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan unearths the stories of those travelling on the great ocean liner the Batory, in the 1950s.

2: The Asturias | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan reveals stories of passengers coming to Britain from Bombay in the late 40s following Independence, including Anglo-Ind...

S2E6 | World on Fire

Harry returns to Manchester, but Kasia is determined to leave. In Europe, Marga and Henriette must each make their escape, while north Africa becomes ev...

5: Age of Nations | Story of Ireland

This concluding part covers the dramatic history of Ireland throughout the 20th century. Presented by Fergal Keane.

3: The Age of Revolution | Story of Ireland

Here, he looks at the changes wrought on Ireland's demographics by the Plantation of Ulster. Presented by Fergal Keane.

S2E2: Let's Pretend | A History of Scotland

Bitterly divided by politics and religion for centuries, this is the infamous story of how Scotland and England came together in ...

S1E4: Language is Power | A History of Scotland

Neil Oliver reveals the story of the infamous Highland/Lowland divide, which was the result of a family struggle.

02: The 1970s, 80s and 90s | Back in Time for Christmas

The Robshaws discover how the race for a Christmas number one single was born, meet an EastEnders star who reminisces...

01: The 1940s, 50s and 60s | Back in Time for Christmas

One family time-travels through six decades of festive nostalgia. A wartime Christmas has the Robshaws embracing the ...

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

In a one-off precursor to his Historyonic's series, Nick Knowles gets a behind-the-scenes look at why a Yorkshire-born zealot called Guy Fa...

04: Pleasure and Escape | Britain and the Sea

David Dimbleby explores how the sea emerged as a source of pleasure, Punch and Judy and sand sculpture, before docking into Gre...

Episode 3 | The Australian Wars

Colonists spread across the continent, assisted by the proliferation of rifles and horses. Everywhere, they were met with resistance from Fir...

Episode 2 | The Australian Wars

Film-maker Rachel Perkins examines what happened when the increasing number of arriving European colonists encroached upon the prime hunting ...

Episode 1 | The Australian Wars

Sydney was the first frontier war battleground. No treaty between European occupying forces and the First Nations people meant conflict, and ...

S06E22: The Passing of the Year | Omnibus

This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated in 1973 with folk song, dance and ritual. For 12 months, from M...

S11E03: Rosa | Doctor Who

The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America. As they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wo...

06: The Gunpowder Plot | Landmarks

This programme tells the story of the plot to blow up King James I.

6: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious object...

Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World

Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination for s...

7: Women's Liberation | 1900s House

The arrival of the maid has given Joyce the freedom to investigate the history of the suffragette movement. But the more she learns about...

Episode 2 | Rebel Heart

Ernie is released fr prison, but the tranquility of the life he led before the Easter rising is short lived.

3: Breakthroughs and Backlash | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark navigates the devolution era and reveals what happens when women take the lead, from the sh...

1: The Disruptors | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged...

2: Having It All | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s, when legislative leaps enshrined new rights for women. But with sexism rife,...

20th Century Wrap: 4: 1950s: Britain - A Time of Change? | History File

Schools history programme looking at 1950's, a period of great change. How did British people react ...

20th Century Wrap: 5: 1960s: The 'Me' Generation? | History File

Schools history programme looking at the 1960's.

20th Century Wrap: 1: 1900s: Britain at its Peak? | History File

This programme investigates the myth of the Edwardian ''Golden Age''.

03: Ides of March | Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator

02: Veni Vidi Vici | Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator

01: High Priest | Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator

Caesar enters into dangerous alliances and bends the rules of the republic in his bid to become consul, the highest...

Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier

Archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter looks back on three centuries of contact and conflict with Scotland's Roman invaders, a story of a superpower ...

8: The Pagan | Colosseum

By the 4th century AD, the Roman Empire is in decline, and the Colosseum, once a proud symbol of the Empire's glory, lies empty. One man turns to th...

7: Commodus | Colosseum

All Roman rulers put great value on spectacles and games, but only one, the son of Marcus Aurelius, steps out of the imperial box and onto the sands ...

5: The Martyr | Colosseum

The public execution of criminals is a staple in the Colosseum, but during Trajan's games, one of these victims is no common prisoner. Bishop Ignat...

6: The Scientist | Colosseum

One of the most famous scientists of the ancient world, Galen of Pergamon, makes a name for himself as a doctor for gladiators in the arena.

4: The Gladiatrix | Colosseum

When the Emperor Trajan stages his great games of AD107, the crowd is treated to a rare spectacle - female gladiators. A Roman named Mevia illu...

2: The Builder | Colosseum

Although master builder Haterius constructs the Colosseum where Nero’s Golden House once stood, his work is far from over. Rome's new emperor, Dom...

3: The Beastmaster | Colosseum

Over a million animals are slaughtered on the sands of the arena by trained beastmasters, none more famous than Carpophorus. But when met with...

1: The Gladiators | Colosseum

In AD80, the Colosseum is open for business. Roman emperor Titus plans 100 days of games to commemorate, including an epic battle to the death ...

5: The Meeting of Two Oceans | Michael Wood: The Story of India

The documentary series about the history of India charts the coming of Islam and one of the greatest ages of ...

3: Spice Routes and Silk Roads | Michael Wood: The Story of India

A look at India in the days of the Roman Empire. In Kerala the spice trade opened India to the world, whils...

1: Beginnings | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood journeys through the subcontinent, tracing the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. He charts the...

2: The Power of Ideas | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood shows how Alexander the Great's invasion of India inspired her first empire and how Buddha's ideas were...

S1E2 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard visits mid-Wales and the west of the country and uncovers a lead mine that is thousands of years old.

S1E1: The Cult | The Battle for Britain's Soul

With disease and famine a constant threat, superstitious Iron-Age Britons sought to appease their pagan gods through ritual sa...

3: Across the Hindu Kush | In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

Michael Wood treks over the Khawak pass, crosses the Oxus river and follows the golden road to Samarkand w...

4: To The Ends of the Earth | In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

Michael Wood traces Alexander the Great's route through Pakistan, the plains of Punjab, down the Indus ...

Huguenots and silk | The Great British Sewing Bee

Claudia Winkleman explains the history of the Huguenots, their fleeing to Britain and how they affected the silk trade.

3: Deliverance | Dunkirk (2004)

The town is under siege, with tens of thousands still waiting to be evacuated and daylight sailing suspended.

03: Act Three: At Work and At Play | Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

Lucy Worsley looks at some remarkable women of the Restoration period...

02: Act Two: At Home | Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary and the extraordinary lives of women in the home...

01: Act One: At Court | Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of Charles II's mistresses at the royal court, inc...

06: Sweet England's Pride | Elizabeth R

An elderly Elizabeth instructs the Earl of Essex to quell the threat of an Irish uprising, but will she have to deal with a rebellion...

02: The Marriage Game | Elizabeth R

The unmarried young queen is encouraged to find a suitable husband so that she can produce an heir, but she finds that very few suitors i...

01: The Lion's Cub | Elizabeth R

A young Elizabeth lives in dangerous times, leading the Protestant rebellion against her Catholic half-sister Mary and challenging her claim...

Sir Francis Drake | My Story

Trixie and Daddy Olly go on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a ship's boy nearly 500 years ago. Trixie and Olly dress u...

04: Horrible Conspiracies | Elizabeth R

Elizabeth finds her position increasingly threatened by Mary, Queen of Scots and her loyal supporters. Will Elizabeth have to execute...

03: Shadow in the Sun | Elizabeth R

Elizabeth meets an interesting suitor, the Duke of Anjou, much to the Puritans' disapproval. Now Elizabeth must decide whether to follow ...

02: Invasion and Defence | Britain and the Sea

David Dimbleby continues his voyage round Britain, sailing along the south east coast from Hampshire to Kent - the edge of Bri...

Fire! | The History Trail

London, 2 September 1666 - the start of a terrible fire recorded in detail by the diarist Samuel Pepys. Within four days the city was in smoking ru...

S07E15: Terrible Tudor Special | Horrible Histories

Chop, chop, it's the Horrible Histories' Terrible Tudors Special, with everything you need to know about history's most f...

Episode 3 | Charles II: The Power and the Passion

A plot is unearthed against the King. Anti-Papist fury threatens the King's position.

Episode 4 | Charles II: The Power and the Passion

As Protestant dissent rises, the king tries to silence his enemies once and for all.

Episode 2 | Charles II: The Power and the Passion

A fiery comet in the sky is rumoured to portend doom on Charlie's reign.

Episode 1 | Charles II: The Power and the Passion

In 1660 after years in exile, Charles II is restored to the throne of England but is abandoned by his friend, the Duke of B...

05: The Spanish Armada | Landmarks

In October 1588, a lone Spanish ship was wrecked off south Devon. In today's programme children from three Devon schools use their own map...

S02E01: Edwardian | Turn Back Time

Three families experience life across five different eras of British history. The Taylors, Meadows and Goldings try to live as Edwardian f...

0: Learning Zone | Andrew Marr's History of the World

Andrew Marr presents a selection of stories from his History of the World, specially rewritten for key stage 3 pupils. ...

Postwar: E17: A New Jerusalem? | Politically

S2E4 | World on Fire

As Kasia takes on her first assignment as an agent, Rajib's military values are tested. Meanwhile, a familiar face comes to David's aid.

S2E2 | World on Fire

As Harry struggles to adapt to the reality of desert combat, Lois still longs to leave home. In Paris, Henriette is in grave danger, and a mysterious st...

S2E3 | World on Fire

As Stan and Rajib make a hasty retreat across the desert, Marga reasserts her commitment to the führer. Meanwhile, David is in peril in the skies over F...

S1E6 | World on Fire

The Nazis have taken Paris with not a bullet fired. Webster and Albert's life in the city they love will never be the same again.

S1E7 | World on Fire

On a Polish mission as part of the SOE, Harry grasps a second chance at saving Kasia from the horrors of Warsaw, while Lois looks set for happiness with...

S1E4 | World on Fire

Harry's courage is tested at Louvain as he comes face to face with a German sniper, and Kasia's resistance activity in Warsaw intensifies.

Series 1 | World on Fire

When war breaks, translator Harry Chase vows to help his Polish lover Kasia flee Warsaw, but how will he explain this to his sweetheart Lois, waitin...

S1E2 | World on Fire

A month after the outbreak of war, Warsaw is unrecognisable, while Manchester, on the surface, appears very much the same. Will there be a warm welcome ...

1: Munich 1938 | Summits

David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that have shaped the modern world. He examines Chamberlain's hubristic misreading of Hitl...

1: Hitler | Secrets of Leadership

Historian Andrew Roberts analyses Adolf Hitler's leadership techniques - and reveals the modern-day movers and shakers, in politics and bus...

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.

9: The Road to Berlin | Twentieth Century History

1943-45 - the final years of the Second World War lead to the defeat of Hitler's Germany and the problems of post-war Europe.

4: Hitler's Germany 1933-36 | Twentieth Century History

History programme for schools looking at Germany under Adolf Hitler's rule during the period of 1933 to 1936.

20: Genocide | The World at War

This edition recounts Himmler's plans to realise Hitler's vision of a pure Aryan Germany. Narrated by Laurence Olivier.

9: Stalingrad | The World at War

After initial successes, Hitler's invasion of Russia is decisively stopped at Stalingrad.

5: Barbarossa | The World at War

The German-Soviet pact ends, and Hitler turns his tanks and troops against Russia.

1: A New Germany | The World at War

Laurence Olivier narrates the acclaimed documentary series telling the story of World War II. Stricken by humiliating defeat and emerging...

Episode 2 | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The second episode reveals how Hitler managed to lead Germany to war in 1939 and orchestrate the dramatic victory over the Fren...

Treatment of Aboriginals in Australia | Empire with David Olusoga

David explains the horrendous treatment of the Aboriginal peoples of Tasmania by the British.

Transportation of Convicts to Australia | Empire with David Olusoga

David explains how Britian sent their problem convicts abroad to the colonies for cheap labour, and many ...

Episode 2 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga reveals how the loss of the American colonies led to the colonisation of Australia and how the Indian indenture system wa...

Episode 1 | Empire with David Olusoga

David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire, from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of colonies in America, th...

Jamestown colony | Empire with David Olusoga

In Jamestown, David looks at evidence of the first English colonies in the Americas and their tobacco plantations.

01: Heart of Oak | Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

Dan Snow charts the role the Royal Navy played in Britain's development. How victory over the Arm...

03: Trade and Romance | Britain and the Sea

Documentary that sees David Dimbleby tracing the crucial importance of the sea to Britain's trade and to individual livelihoods o...

01: Adventure and Exploration | Britain and the Sea

David Dimbleby sails the south west coast of England, exploring maritime art, architecture and history - including the st...

S01E01: Victorian | Turn Back Time

A group of modern shopkeepers and their families live and trade through six key eras of history. They begin their journey in the 1870s, wh...

3: Last Hurrah? | Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain

Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He takes a wry and witty look at the up...

1: Emergence | Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain

Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He charts how and why the stiff upper lip ...

2: Heyday | Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain

Ian Hislop investigates Britain's emotional history. He argues that we have the Victorians to than...

2: Trade and Industry | Wales and the History of the World

Wales powered the world by exporting coal, our lager quenched the thirst of the Empire and our tinplate kept food ...

S2E4 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard goes in search of the lost and hidden locations from Wales's coal history and explores the abandoned buildings of some for...

S2E5 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard discovers the hidden history of the Welsh slate industry by exploring forgotten and usually inaccessible locations that sh...

S2E3 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard goes in search of the lost and hidden locations from Wales's coal history and explores the abandoned buildings of some for...

S2E2 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard discovers the forgotten history of Wales's copper story by exploring some extraordinary locations that reveal how this cou...

S1E1 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

Will Millard begins his tour in the north, uncovering long-unseen historical gems such as the biggest abandoned slate mine in the world.

The Full Story: Episode 4 | Snowdonia 1890

The first day of spring on the Jones and Braddock families' 1890 smallholding sees tempers fray as 21st-century expectations clash...

The Full Story: Episode 5 | Snowdonia 1890

The final week for the Jones and Braddock families on their 1890 smallholding. As everyone prepares to return to their normal 21st...

Episode 1 | Britain AD: King Arthur's Britain

Francis Pryor returns to investigate Dark Ages Britain and find out who the English really are. He will argue that by the time ...

Norman Family Tree Song (ABBA parody) | Horrible Histories

The song, titled ''Matilda(s) & Stephen ... & Henry,'' is a parody of ABBA and features characters from the Norman...

St Brice's Day massacre 1002 | Digging for Britain

Tragic events like the St. Brice's Day Massacre, sanctioned by King Ethelred the Unready, reveal tensions between Anglo-Sa...

S1E2: From Cradle to Grave | The Battle for Britain's Soul

Looking at what life was like in a Christian fundamentalist state, as Britain was in 700AD.

3: Aethelstan: The First King of England | King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

Michael Wood tells the tale of King Alfred's grandson Aethelstan, showing how he fulfilled the fa...

2: The Lady of the Mercians | King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

Michael Wood uncovers the story of Alfred's daughter Aethelflaed, who led armies, campaigned against the Vikin...

1: Alfred of Wessex | King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

Michael Wood tells the story of King Alfred the Great and his children and grandson. Alfred fights a desperate guerril...

Towton 1461 | A History of the World

Horrible Histories author Terry Deary tells the story of the country's biggest and bloodiest ever battle in which 28,000 soldiers died i...

Episode 2 | The Real White Queen and Her Rivals

Philippa Gregory tells the interweaving stories of the women who were decisive figures in the Wars of the Roses - Elizabeth W...

Episode 1 | The Real White Queen and Her Rivals

Philippa Gregory reveals the stories of three women at the heart of the Wars of the Roses - the 'White Queen' Elizabeth Woodv...

2: The Age of Conquest | Story of Ireland

In this episode he examines the impact of huge upheavals in Europe during the Middle Ages on Ireland. Presented by Fergal Keane.

1: Age of Invasions | Story of Ireland

Fergal Keane presents a series charting the history of Ireland and her people. He begins with how Ireland was never a remote island ou...

3: The Death of Kings | The Plantagenets

In the last century of their rule, four Plantagenet kings are deposed and murdered.

2: An English Empire | The Plantagenets

A clear sense of English nationhood emerges and parliament is born.

0: Learning Zone | The Plantagenets

Professor Robert Bartlett explores the Plantagenets, England's longest ruling dynasty, in this version of the BBC Two series made especia...

1: The Devil's Blood | The Plantagenets

Professor Robert Bartlett tells the story of England's longest-ruling royal dynasty. Henry II forges a mighty empire encompassing Eng...

1: The East: A New Dawn | How We Built Britain

David Dimbleby goes on an architectural tour of Britain. He climbs the tower of Ely Cathedral, explores great castles and lear...

S1E3: Bishop Makes King | A History of Scotland

Neil Oliver investigates the role the church played in Robert Bruce's struggle to secure Scottish independence.

S1E2: Hammers of the Scots | A History of Scotland

Neil Oliver charts the 13th century story of the two ruthless men who helped transform the Gaelic kingdom of Alba into the...

S1E1: The Last of the Free | A History of Scotland

At the dawn of the first millennia, there was no Scotland or England. Neil Oliver reveals how the Gaelic Scottish Kingdom ...

05: The Enterprise of England | Elizabeth R

With the threat of war against Spain suddenly imminent, Elizabeth must place her faith in the strength of the navy, led by Sir Fr...

4: Ages of Gold | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Presenter Michael Wood seeks out the achievements of India's golden age.

6: Richard the Lionheart | Heroes and Villains

Drama-documentary about Richard the Lionheart. Was he the heroic warrior of Robin Hood? Or was he just a thug who looted the H...

4: The Shogun | Heroes and Villains

Drama-documentary about the Samurai general Tokugawa Ieyasu. He overthrew the governing dynasty of Japan and became the Shogun - the supr...

2: Cortes | Heroes and Villains

The Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes is supposed to have taken the Aztec empire with a few soldiers and 16 horses. Can that be true?

2: Invasion, Invasion, Invasion | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore continues his history of Jerusalem by discovering the impact of Islam and the c...

1: Wellspring of Holiness | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore begins a history of Jerusalem by exploring how it came into being and how it became s...

3: The Age of Elegance & Sensibility | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

Howard Goodall looks at the age in which composers went from being the paid servants of princes and ar...

1: The Age of Discovery | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

Composer Howard Goodall traces the development of music from the religious 'Gregorian' chant to the growth of instr...

Episode 3 | The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors

Rageh Omaar ends his series with a look at how the collapse of the Ottoman Empire created a legacy of tension and conflict...

Episode 2 | The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors

Rageh Omaar explores the contrasts between two very different Ottoman sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th centur...

Episode 1 | The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors

Rageh Omaar examines the history of the Ottoman empire. He starts by looking at the unlikely roots of the Ottomans, as nom...

7: Radiance | Civilisations

Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th-cent...

6: First Contact | Civilisations

David Olusoga shows how art was always on the frontline when distant cultures met.

5: The Triumph of Art | Civilisations

Simon Schama examines how traditions developed in the years following the Renaissances.

4: The Eye of Faith | Civilisations

Professor Mary Beard explores the controversial topic of religion and art. How, and at what cost, do different religions make the unseen ...

3: Picturing Paradise | Civilisations

Simon Schama explores the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of obser...

2: The Cross and the Crescent | Africa's Great Civilisations

Henry Louis Gates Jr explores how the emergence of Christianity and Islam reshaped Africa over centuries.

Episode 1 | The Silk Road

Sam Willis traces the story of the famous trade route. He explores Venice's Renaissance architecture and art before travelling to the beginning of ...

4: Destruction | Crusades

Terry Jones reports on how Richard the Lionheart set out to battle with Saladin and on rise of Muslim fanaticism as a mirror to Christian ferocity.

2: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

The Allies are in retreat, but the Navy can only pick up a few soldiers and Churchill is advised to make peace to save the rest.

Episode 1 | Benefits Britain 1949

Benefits claimants volunteer to live by the rules of the first year of the welfare state. This first episode asks how the state should supp...

02: 1910s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family travel back to the 1910s - a decade of feast and famine. Rochelle struggles to feed the family as supplies run...

06: Episode 6 | Further Back in Time for Dinner

In the final episode, the family and Debbie reflect on their time travels, discovering that much of what they experienced in ...

05: 1940s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

In their final decade of time travel, the Robshaws enter the 1940s and experience a decade overshadowed by war and entirely fuell...

04: 1930s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family discover a surprising decade of progress and optimism as they journey through the 30s. Their larder is now stu...

03: 1920s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaws experience a thoroughly modern decade as they enter the 20s. They get a taste of the age's racy reputation as they h...

01: 1900s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family travel back in time to the turn of the 20th century, to discover how the food we ate and the way we ate it hel...

04: Sea Change | Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

Dan Snow looks at how the 19th-century Navy used gunboat diplomacy to push British interests furthe...

S03E01: Dish and Dishonesty | Blackadder

England, 1760-1815 - golden age of wealth, power and discovery. But not for E Blackadder Esq, butler to the Prince Regent. The new P...

The Battle for Brixton

April 1981: unprecedented violence erupts on south London streets, as thousands of local residents fight a pitched battle with the capital's police in...

05: George's Last Ride | Boys from the Blackstuff

After his operation, George Malone walks out of hospital in his pyjamas. Chrissie, Loggo and George's sons return him, but ...

04: Yosser's Story | Boys from the Blackstuff

After his wife leaves him, Yosser Hughes struggles to hold his family together. But with no work and the police and social serv...

03: Shop Thy Neighbour | Boys from the Blackstuff

Chrissie and his wife Angie are driven to despair by money problems and hounding by the Department of Employment investigat...

02: Moonlighter | Boys from the Blackstuff

Dixie Dean, working at night in the port as a security guard, is strongarmed into accepting bribes for allowing the removal of goo...

01: Jobs for the Boys | Boys from the Blackstuff

Drama series about life in recession-hit Britain in the Thatcher era. Chrissie, Dixie, Yosser, Loggo and George sign on befo...

Episode 2 | Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame

David Hayman presents the second of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Episode 1 | Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame

David Hayman presents the first of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

02: Black Britons 2 | Primary History

The history of black people in Britain, from the abolition of the slave trade to the end of World War II. Education for seven- to 11-ye...

S3E1: Forces of Nature | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

The French Revolution sent shockwaves through Britain. While some watched transfixed, others were horrified. Si...

Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea | Timewatch

The story of the massacre at No Gun Ri during the Korean War, one of the worst atrocities committed by American troops...

Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie's Story | Panorama

Panorama follows the parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing as they navigate the public inquiry i...

03: High Tide | Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

Dan Snow presents a series on the Royal Navy's role in British history. Dan looks at the evolution o...

4: Our People | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken...

3: Resistance | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the danger...

1: A People Stolen | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensla...

2: A Precious Cargo | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating m...

Episode 3 | The Australian Wars

Colonists spread across the continent, assisted by the proliferation of rifles and horses. Everywhere, they were met with resistance from Fir...

Episode 2 | The Australian Wars

Film-maker Rachel Perkins examines what happened when the increasing number of arriving European colonists encroached upon the prime hunting ...

Episode 1 | The Australian Wars

Sydney was the first frontier war battleground. No treaty between European occupying forces and the First Nations people meant conflict, and ...

04: Mandela | Primary History

An introduction to the life and times of Nelson Mandela. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-olds.

3: Pomp and Power | Lost World of the Raj

Set against the backdrop of British India from the 1920s to Independence in 1947, this third and last programme in the series tells...

1: Home from Home | Lost World of the Raj

The first episode recreates the era of the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life i...

2: Sex and Sensibility | Lost World of the Raj

Raj society was based on a formal order of precedence, but behind the scenes there was a great deal of flirtation, fun, affair...

6: Freedom | Michael Wood: The Story of India

Michael Wood examines the British Raj and traces the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.

Postwar: E17: A New Jerusalem? | Politically

Episode 2 | Mandela: The Living Legend

David Dimbleby narrates the second of a two-part of documentary profiling former South African President and ANC leader, Nelson Mandel...

Episode 1 | Mandela: The Living Legend

Former South African President and global statesman, Nelson Mandela offers a unique glimpse into his hectic daily life. David Dimbleby...

Episode 2 | The Balkans: Europe's Forgotten Frontier

Katya Adler travels to Romania, where she visits what will be Nato's largest European base, Kosovo, Europe's youngest co...

Stalin's Back | This World

Reporter John Sweeney travels more than 5000 miles through the old Soviet Union, from Stalin's birthplace in Georgia to a former labour camp in Ru...

3: Geneva 1985 | Summits

David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. He sees how Reagan and Gorbachev helped ensure a peaceful e...

2: Vienna 1961 | Summits

David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. How Kennedy and Khrushchev's meeting in Vienna in 1961 near...

2: The World Turned Upside Down | Russia's Lost Princesses

The last four years of the sisters' lives saw war, revolution, imprisonment and murder.

1: The Gilded Cage | Russia's Lost Princesses

The story of Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters. As they grew up, the sisters attracted frenzied press attention and grew close ...

3: Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Frontier | The Flying Archaeologist

Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a landscape of hundreds of sites of human occupation sugg...

1: Stalin and the Modernisation of Russia | Twentieth Century History

A schools feature about the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, who turned Russia into an industrial powerho...

9: Stalingrad | The World at War

After initial successes, Hitler's invasion of Russia is decisively stopped at Stalingrad.

S2E3: The Home Front | Rise of the Nazis

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and a...

S2E2: Stalingrad | Rise of the Nazis

The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met ...

3: The Road to Revolution | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy investigates how the Romanov family's grip on Russia unravelled in their final century...

2: Age of Extremes | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

The story of the dynasty that ruled Russia for more than three centuries. Lucy examines the reign ...

1: Reinventing Russia | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy looks at the beginning of the Romanovs' reign, from Mikhail to Peter the Great, the tsar d...

S3E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.

S2E9: Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers | Days That Shook the World

This program focuses on the exchange of pilot Gary Powers and Soviet spy Colonel Abel in 1962.

S2E9: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World

This program focuses on the shooting down of the US U-2 spy plane in 1960.

S2E6: Yuri Gagarin's Flight | Days That Shook the World

Yuri Gagarin's journey as the first man in space.

S1E5: The Murder of the Romanovs | Days That Shook the World

This program examines events marking the beginning and end of communism in Eastern Europe, including the executi...

5: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

0: Learning Zone | Andrew Marr's History of the World

Andrew Marr presents a selection of stories from his History of the World, specially rewritten for key stage 3 pupils. ...

S11E03: Rosa | Doctor Who

The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America. As they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wo...

1929: The Great Crash

Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual weal...

04: The World Turned Upside Down | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

By 1781, the British had enjoyed command of the sea and with it the ability to move th...

02: American Crisis 1776 | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

As Washington is forced out of New York, his army begins to desert, until a daring raid across...

03: The War Moves South | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

The British open a new front in the southern colonies, winning a series of victories and findin...

01: The Shot Heard Around the World | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

The war for independence is often regarded as a people's struggle for liberty in th...

Episode 11 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

From humble beginnings, Hollywood became the world’s leading multi-billion dollar industry of glitz, glamour, money and fam...

Episode 9 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...

Episode 10 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties s...

Episode 8 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...

Episode 6 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

The story of America’s criminal past, seen in colour for the first time using rare archive.

Episode 7 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

America lead the world in industrial innovation in the early 20th century.

Episode 5 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

A look at America in the 1960s - a decade of revolution that delivers the modern America we recognise today - in colour for ...

Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...

Episode 3 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

A look at America in the 1940s - the decade that transforms the nation - using rare archive footage seen in colour for the f...

Episode 1 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Documentary showing 1920s America in colour for the first time.

Episode 2 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

A look at 1930s America using rare and unseen footage and in colour for the first time.

4: John F. Kennedy | Secrets of Leadership

Andrew Roberts highlights John F Kennedy's talent for making the public like him through his understanding that the key to power l...

3: Martin Luther King | Secrets of Leadership

Martin Luther King is seen as an inspiration for peaceful protest campaigns. Andrew Roberts challenges this perception in a pro...

11: The Greatest of Them All | Great Britons (2002)

A final opportunity to hear the arguments and vote for the Greatest Briton of all time. Anne Robinson is joined by the ce...

1: The Top 100 | Great Britons (2002)

Anne Robinson launches the BBC's search for the Greatest Briton in a special program, revealing a countdown of the top 100 nominations....

3: Green Imagined Land | Ian Hislop's Olden Days

Ian Hislop explores the British trait of obsession with the past. He looks at the rural olden days - Britain's idealised vis...

2: Forward into the Past | Ian Hislop's Olden Days

Ian Hislop explores the British trait of obsession with the past. He shows how the Victorians turned to the Middle Ages to...

8: Live Final | Icons

In this live final hosted by Claudia Winkleman and Nick Robinson, the celebrity advocates return to fight their winning icon's case, and the public vot...

4: To Infinity and Beyond | The Story of Maths

Marcus du Sautoy concludes his look at the history of mathematics by examining the great unsolved problems that confronted mat...

2: The Genius of the East | The Story of Maths

Marcus du Sautoy looks at the rise of mathematics in the east, discovering how it helped build imperial China and finding out ...

3: The Frontiers of Space | The Story of Maths

Marcus du Sautoy investigates the ways in which Europe replaced the Middle East as the world's powerhouse of mathematical idea...

1: The Language of the Universe | The Story of Maths

Marcus du Sautoy uncovers the use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand and looks at the contributions of...

Schools' History Project | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Aimed at students who are revising for GCSE the Schools History Project concentrates on Medicine Through Time and The Ameri...

Modern World History | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Focusing on the skills students will need for all history syllabuses - source evaluation and essay writing.

History - Interpretations | Curriculum Bites

People interpret events from the past in different ways, so what is history?

California 2000 | Panorama

A look at California's technology industry and its potential impact on the future. The Californian technology industry is by far the most advanced...