Dan Snow looks at how the 19th-century Navy used gunboat diplomacy to push British interests furthe...
The emergence of secularism in the 20th century presented the Church with an unprecedented test and provoked a cri...
Featuring compelling testimony, this is the story of 15 men and women and one life-changing year on the front line of the most divisi...
The story of Hull's triple trawler tragedy fifty years ago in 1968, in which 58 deep sea fishermen died, and the protest by local women who fou...
What would Britain have been like if Winston Churchill had won the 1945 general election?
When did the postwar period end?
What happened to Winston Churchill in the years after the 1945 general election?
The immediate result of the general election was silence: a three-week hiatus.
Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-centur...
Theresa May's election gamble has resulted in a catastrophic outcome for the Conservatives, whilst Jeremy Corbyn has defied man...
During the Queen's long reign, Britain's heavy industries have faced devastating decline. Andrew Marr picks the 'New E...
Andrew Marr explores how Britain since 1952 has coped with the loss of empire, America's cultural and political hege...
David Dimbleby's journey through Britain's architecture concludes with a look at how 20th-century developments change...
A profile of Enoch Powell.
Is Heath the right man for the job? Panorama talks to Conservative Party activists about their views on Edward Heath. He is then interviewed by a pan...
Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...
James Hanratty (also known as the A6 Murderer) was a British criminal who was one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punis...
As viewers come to terms with the loss of a great British hero, Richard Dimbleby hosts a collection of tributes to Winston Churchill from hi...
Profile of Harold Wilson and Alec Douglas-Home on the election trail from 19 October 1964.
Live edition on the night that Her Majesty the Queen asked Alec Douglas-Home to be Prime Minister, following Harold Macmillan's sudden re...
This programme covers the 30's and the extent of the depression. Contemporay film-makers recorded a vivid pictu...
Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a m...
The government announced the closure of investigations into alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan before a single soldier was pros...
Panorama Special in which Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's fo...
Documentary drama series that reconstructs events that shaped the building of Britain's cathedrals.Winchester Cathedral faced destruction ...
In the final documentary of the series, MP Mo Mowlam argues for Winston Churchill as the greatest Briton, portraying him as an inspiratio...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.
Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.
Documentary exploring the myth of the 1960s and "Swinging Britain." The decade's social revolution led to a fragm...
Andrew Roberts reveals many of Churchill's weaknesses as a subordinate in charge of the Royal Navy, and the great strengths they became ...
Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of how the British fought back to regain control of the Falkland Islands ...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. By the mid-80s, Britain felt like an embattled nation, struggling to establis...
Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of choi...
Churchill described Italy as the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile', thinking the Allies could cut through it to reach Germany. However,...
An uneasy calm settles on Britain as Churchill replaces Chamberlain as prime minister.
Explores job creation, road congestion and housing in Cambridge.
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997, in a Paris car crash.
The Great Train Robbery on August 8, 1963.
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.
This film reveals the enormous risks Britain took in the Falklands War and how a remarkable victory could have become a devastating defeat.
In November 1994, John Major ordered the whip to be withdrawn from eight rebel backbenchers. By the following summer the cabinet itself was divid...
Tonight looks at Black Wednesday and the damage it did to Major's leadership. Both Major and Norman Lamont speak very frankly about their roles i...
The former PM talks frankly about his early years and his colleagues describe his rise to become leader of the country.
David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw Britons upturn ancient power structures and class hierarchies.
Examining the 20th century through the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who both wrote about the D...
Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...
As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal r...
Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade unio...
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