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At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Harewood

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Starkey

An adaptation of the two parts of Henry IV.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Pickup

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Scofield

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tamsin Greig

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Finch

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that defined this radical religious revolution in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janina Ramirez

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: J. Johnston

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Sweet

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. While her service to her country is...

Genre: History

Cast: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Iris Zhang

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Finch

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Sandeman

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

This documentary from BT Sport Films celebrates the life of two-time world champion biker Barry Sheene, paying homage to his trailblazing career.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philip Glenister

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties like it is 500 years ago - discovering long-lost...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Hardy

Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age of 13 in 1919.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Williams

In an ambitious and groundbreaking approach to drama and history featuring dramatic reconstruction, historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

This series travels the length and breadth of Britain to find out how the Victorians built Britain. It uncovers the incredible and surprising stories...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Buerk

In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

In the 1750s London’s perilous streets were run by armed gangs, corrupt night watchmen and thief takers. Then two Westminster magistrates,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Iain Glen

The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin

A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philip Sarson

The twelve episodes of this BBC series cover a millennium of English monarchy and portray lives of twelve important English monarchs and how each of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nigel Spivey

In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alice Roberts

This two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexual revolution that transformed Britain during the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Princess Margaret

Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous castles: Warwick, Dover, Caernarfon, the Tower of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dan Jones

Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at a dynamic decade. 1980s Britain changed in everything from politics and sport to fashion and popular culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dominic Sandbrook

Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history. She uncovers forgotten witnesses, re-examines old evidence and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeremy Ashbee

Part documentary, part historical drama, this series follows the fortunes of the different members of the Boleyn family, ultimately made notorious...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shelley Conn

Taking a 'bottom-up' view of history by exploring everyday lives of the nations ordinary people.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

This is the true tale of the biggest scandal ever to engulf the British Royal Family – a forbidden love affair which had a devastating impact....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom