How a technical problem was solved in 1839, paving the way for practical application.
Mobeen receives a surprise visit from armed police, who arrest Eight on suspicion of supplying drugs to schoolkids in Small Heath.
Rupert Murdoch must decide who he wants to be Britain's next prime minister, whilst a battle for succession begins within his ...
Following World War I, photography was the medium of the age, and used to promote radical utopia.
An alliance forms, including Hugh Grant, that is willing to take on the Murdoch empire. A scandal threatens Rupert's ...
When Mobeen learns that his little sister Aks has been suspended from school for fighting, he realises that he might not be the best role m...
Photography at its best makes viewers eyewitnesses to events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima.
With Rupert Murdoch's reputation in tatters, he mounts an incredible comeback that involves Brexit and Donald Trump, and th...
When the boys visit Eight's Dadha on his deathbed, they are disturbed to hear he has been keeping a dark secret and needs help.
Kathleen examines the lives of Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie. She uncovers their greatest achievements and explores...
Staring hate, violence and societal fractures in the face, Mobeen and his crew see the far right in their truest form at an anti-Islam demons...
The three decades from the late 1950s onwards were the golden age of photographic journeys and colour photography.
Jeremy Clarkson looks at the television. He looks at television inventors John Logie Baird and Philo T Farnsworth and it's ...
How the medium translates personal relationships into photographic ones, and what happens when photographers turn their cameras ...
A look at the current state of the art, from phone cameras to digital post-production, and the rediscovery of 19th century tec...
The difference with Albert Watson's landscape photography is that he manipulates the images using any means necessary; in...
Documentary following Albert Watson over the course of a day photographing the barren, beautiful landscape of the Isle of Skye.
Alan Yentob celebrates the 70th anniversary of the world's first scheduled high-definition television service, by the BBC from...
Archive recordings of Angus McBean reveal his beginnings in the theatre taking portrait photographs of Laurence Olivier.
Ansel Adams spoke to the BBC a year before his death about some of his most famous landscape photographs.
David Hurn was one of the first of the new breed of fashion photographers, who used to shoot in his own s...
James Fox explores the history of the Brownie camera and how Kodak's ''point-and-shoot'' revelation was the game-changer for photography.
On one day, the people of one South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'.
Cindy Sherman's use of self-portraiture has set her apart from her peers as she transforms herself into unnerving charact...
Colin and Barry discuss Dot finding out them being a homosexual couple, and the potential fallout it may have on th...
Corinne Day, a former model, switched the focus from the photographer to the model and in doing so sparked Ka...
Following Dennis Morris, whose images of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols helped define the art of rock photography, at work as he ...
A brief rundown of the different types of photographer and their attributes.
Monochrome was always considered the serious choice for documentary work until John Bulmer began a...
Dot Cotton discovers that Colin Russell and Barry Clark are a gay couple. Distressed, she consults Dr. Legg, fearing she might contract AIDS from...
Film following photographer Dougie Wallace as he finishes Harrodsburg, a series documenting the super-rich in one of the UK's mo...
A bitter sweet comedy abt the romantic entanglements of 2 yng Scottish girls in Edinburgh. Annie's life is in choas & she has 2 boyfriends to get rid of. She drea...
Eamonn McCabe explores how science and technology allowed pioneering photographers like Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Ca...
The search for Britain's best amateur photographer begins with a blustery Brighton seafront, a nature assignment in the New F...
The origins of the real Peaky Blinders, a mass street gang phenomenon that arose in Birmingham at the end of the 19th century.
Eamonn McCabe explores how British photographers responded to historic events in the first half of the 20th century and tr...
When the 'We Want What You Have' campaign takes a nasty turn for the worse, the residents of Pepys Road demand greater action from the police.
The photographers face a speed assignment in the boxing gym, go in search of documenting life in a Birmingham market and are ...
Looking at the birth of organised crime in Britain. Billy Kimber’s gang clash with London's Sabini gang and Alfie Solomon in the racecour...
Photographer Eamonn McCabe traces the story of British photography from the explosion of colour images in the late 1950s t...
As the police investigation into the 'We Want What You Have' campaign leads them in an unexpected direction, DI Mill hopes to secure a confession.
The search for an exciting new name in British photography continues. This week sees the six photographers challenged to capt...
The photographers embrace Glencoe for their landscape challenge and click with two up-and-coming bands. It's time to wow Rank...
Eve Arnold speaks about Marilyn Monroe, her attraction to the camera and why Eve enjoyed photographing her.
Faye Godwin wasn't recognised for years until her signature collection ''Land'', which captured Britain's landscapes in s...
Demonstrating the practical steps Fox Talbot took to improve his photographic processes.
Documentary following Frank Quitely over the course of a day and a night, as he works on a page from his latest work, Jupiter's L...
As debate continues as to the effect of gaming on our mental health & wellbeing, we speak to gamers from the UK who tell us ...
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