At the beginning of the twentieth century the world was stable and certain, but unequal. The Paris Exhibition of 1900 symbolise...
Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a m...
Trevor examines the lives of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. He discovers exactly what made each of th...
Margaret Thatcher's inner circle reveals how she managed to overcome her outsider status to become a prominent polit...
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,...
Rising consumption patterns extract a huge toll on nature. Toxic contamination in Minamata and Love Canal and the Torrey...
Andrew Marr explores how Britain since 1952 has coped with the loss of empire, America's cultural and political hege...
Andrew Roberts reveals many of Churchill's weaknesses as a subordinate in charge of the Royal Navy, and the great strengths they became ...
An uneasy calm settles on Britain as Churchill replaces Chamberlain as prime minister.
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.
Mrs Thatcher struggles to cling to power as the economy collapses, riots break out and she is subverted by members of her own ...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. By the mid-80s, Britain felt like an embattled nation, struggling to establis...
This programme covers the 30's and the extent of the depression. Contemporay film-makers recorded a vivid pictu...
The baby boom produced a cohort of children in the affluent and secure post-war world who for the first time would question es...
Governments around the world liberalise trade and withdraw from intervening in the economy, giving new opportunities to those...
Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade unio...
Documentary drama series that reconstructs events that shaped the building of Britain's cathedrals.Winchester Cathedral faced destruction ...
During the Queen's long reign, Britain's heavy industries have faced devastating decline. Andrew Marr picks the 'New E...
In February 1991, Prime Minister John Major survived an IRA mortar attack. But this wasn't the only message he received from the ...
Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the Britis...
As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal r...
Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.
Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...
In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well ...
Explores job creation, road congestion and housing in Cambridge.
David Dimbleby's journey through Britain's architecture concludes with a look at how 20th-century developments change...
Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of how the British fought back to regain control of the Falkland Islands ...
David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw Britons upturn ancient power structures and class hierarchies.
Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of Operation Desert Storm, revealing how the battle was dominated by cutting-e...
In the final documentary of the series, MP Mo Mowlam argues for Winston Churchill as the greatest Briton, portraying him as an inspiratio...
The cloak-and-dagger story of how Churchill and MI5 hunted down Britain's fascist sympathisers, who threatened to undermine the war effort.
How and why Winston Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to attack the French fleet in July 1940.
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...
Theresa May's election gamble has resulted in a catastrophic outcome for the Conservatives, whilst Jeremy Corbyn has defied man...
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...
In November 1994, John Major ordered the whip to be withdrawn from eight rebel backbenchers. By the following summer the cabinet itself was divid...
Panorama Special in which Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's fo...
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...
Profile of Harold Wilson and Alec Douglas-Home on the election trail from 19 October 1964.
Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...
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...
Documentary exploring the myth of the 1960s and "Swinging Britain." The decade's social revolution led to a fragm...
Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-centur...
David Olusoga explores the boom in art, music and culture in Liverpool during the swinging sixties.
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...
With their ship trapped, Shackleton and his men are forced onto the ice, and it becomes clear that the only way out is to haul their boats across the ice...
The immediate result of the general election was silence: a three-week hiatus.
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