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...
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...
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...
2: 1940-1965 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia
George Alagiah tells the story of the GI babies labelled war casualties, the boom in mixed-race couples following mass migrati...
3: 1965-2011 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia
George Alagiah tells the story of couples facing violence on the streets during the 70s, how adoption became a battleground an...
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces tha...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Postwar: E10: India and Empire | Politically
The question of self-government for India would have to be confronted when war was over.
7: Soldiers of Empire | Not Forgotten
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fou...
5: Shot at Dawn | Not Forgotten
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...
1: The Viceory of India | A Passage to Britain
Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...
Episode 4 | Rebel Heart
It's 1922 and Ernie and Ita are together at last, while Ireland is poised to win her independence.
Episode 3 | Rebel Heart
Ernie is sent to the west of Ireland by Michael Collins to rally support but learns that Kelly and O'Toole are awaiting execution.
Episode 1 | Rebel Heart
Drama about an idealistic young man's coming of age during the birth of the Irish nation.
Episode 2 | The Road to Partition
The second episode explores how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilise the new Northern Irish state.
Episode 1 | The Road to Partition
Documentary exploring the political brinkmanship and bitter communal violence that led to the partition of Ireland.
3: Lady Constance Lytton | Shoulder to Shoulder
1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...
Episode 2 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947
Anita Rani and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Part...
Episode 1 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947
Anita Rani marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India by exploring its impact on four British families, includi...
2: Pirates | Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues
Sam Willis explores the golden age of piracy during the early 18th century and charts the devastating impact p...
3: The Jewel in the Crown | British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the fibs that surround th...
10: India: The Brightest Jewel | Twentieth Century History
Programme covers events in India from the 1930s to Independence and Partition in 1947.
The end of the British Slave Trade | Angellica: Time Traveller
In the final part of this journey Angellica Bell meets one of the descendants of William Wilberforce who helpe...
Saint Lucia | Angellica: Time Traveller
Angellica Bell explains what happened to the slaves once they arrived in the Caribbean.
Slave Ships | Angellica: Time Traveller
A group of school children crowd onto a bus to try and get a sense of how slaves felt on the crowded ships taking them to new lands.
Senegal | Angellica: Time Traveller
Angellica Bell describes how people were captured and treated in Senegal as they entered into a life of salvery.
Bristol's role in the slave trade | Angellica: Time Traveller
Angellica Bell introduces the slave trade and the importance of Bristol in its history.
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.
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
6: Clash of Civilisations | Africa's Great Civilisations
The final episode reviews the 19th century, when a fierce competition for resources and trade led to conflicts.
4: Cities | Africa's Great Civilisations
This episode looks at the powerful, cosmopolitan cities that dotted Africa at the time when Europe was in its Middle Ages.
3: Empires of Gold | Africa's Great Civilisations
Henry Louis Gates travels to the shores of the Sahara Desert to see the transformation of north and west Africa.
1: Origins | Africa's Great Civilisations
Henry Louis Gates Jr looks at the discoveries that point to Africa as the genetic home of all currently living humanity.
Episode 3 | The Long Song
Angry and frustrated by the workers' refusal to work to his orders, Robert takes violent revenge, hoping to scare them into working, to the shock a...
Episode 2 | The Long Song
Caroline and July compete for Robert's attention. Robert announces that he's marrying Caroline, but on the wedding night goes to July's bed and the...
David explains the horrendous treatment of the Aboriginal peoples of Tasmania by the British.
David explains how Britian sent their problem convicts abroad to the colonies for cheap labour, and many ...
David Olusoga reveals how the loss of the American colonies led to the colonisation of Australia and how the Indian indenture system wa...
David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire, from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of colonies in America, th...
In a series on the Royal Navy's role in British history, Dan Snow shows how the country came ...
An introduction to the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. Schools programme for seven- to 11-year-olds.
Documentary in which Miles Chambers recounts the history of the slave trade in the West Country through objects and architectu...
A century on, historian Dr Zareer Masani reappraises the events and context of the Amritsar massacre in which hundreds of India...
Documentary in which Neil Oliver explores the possible links between racism in America's Deep South and the Scottish settlers that first occupied it.
Tonight's programme follows historian Andrew Roberts across the Indian subcontinent as he argues that Britain should take pride in its imper...
Sathnam Sanghera goes on a very personal journey to unearth the roots that bind his country to its colonial past. Travelling across Britain ...
The town is under siege, with tens of thousands still waiting to be evacuated and daylight sailing suspended.
Journalist Anita Rani sets out to see if she can find out more about what happened to her grandfather during the Partition of I...
The well-known chef heads to the West Indies and discovers his Caribbean history is not quite what he expected.
Director Gurinder Chadha learns about her father's life in Kenya and her grandmother's experiences during the partition of ...
Actress Lenora Crichlow sets off to South Africa to discover the story of how Nelson Mandela brought peace to his country and what he mea...
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Chinese labour corp in WW1.
David Olusoga investigates the WW1 experiences of French troops from Sub-Sah...
David Olusoga discusses the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
David Olusoga discusses the Indian corp experiences of industrialised trench warfare.
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Indian soldiers arriving in Marseille at th...
Drama-documentary starring Clive Russell as Lachlan Macquarie, governor of the British penal colony that would eventually become Australia.
James Mossman reports on the relationship between Europeans and Africans in the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lose their...
The story of Olaudah Equiano, a black slave who emerged from the horrors of the African holocaust to become an English gentleman, marry a white wom...
Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon travels to Wales, joined by ten members of her family, in search of her ancestors.
Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have l...
David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of In...
In part two, historian David Olusoga explains how the First World War spread far beyond the mud and ...
Was Wales involved in the slave trade? Two hundred years after the trade was abolished, Sean Fletcher travels to Jamaica to look f...
Born a slave, July is taken from her mother to a plantation house and forced to work for the odious Caroline. But as she matures she starts to learn how to han...
A compilation of short films made specially for schools on the rise and fall of the East India Company, which acc...
Dan Snow traces the rise and fall of the East India Company, and reveals how the British government controlled the Ea...
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised British lifestyles and laid the fo...
Encased in armour, Terry Jones sets out on the walk to the Holy City - a journey that took the Crusaders two years and killed most of them.
Terry Jones explores the history of the Crusades, to discover exactly what happened when the Pope instigated a popular campaign to conquer Jer...
In the final part of his personal account of Britain's empire, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve ...
Jeremy Paxman travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of slaves, to Calcutta.
Jeremy Paxman continues by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero.
Jeremy Paxman continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things.
Jeremy Paxman begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the world.
The story of the Independence of India.
David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists.
In 1834 Britain abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that a...
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper through the excavations at St James's burial ground on the hunt for the lost ex...
Historian David Olusoga concludes his series with the three African kings who stood up to empire, an irresistible ...
In part three of this groundbreaking series, historian David Olusoga explores the Victorian moral crusade against s...
In the second part of his four-part series, historian David Olusoga explores the business of slavery and remembers the bl...
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