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Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-day paparazzi-inspired obsession. Historian Dr....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

A thought provoking documentary feature film providing a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of signals intelligence over the past century. ...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Aldrich

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Flynn

Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Julius Caesar, and to challenge public perception, exploring Caesar's surprising legacy.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Beard

Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth travels to the West Yorkshire moors, known as "Bronte Country". It is an area that shaped the Bronte sisters, and they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gyles Brandreth

David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Olusoga

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melvyn Bragg

Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society?...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Crumpton

At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under...

Genre: History

Cast: Vinith Shiva

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon T. Roden

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Max Adrian

Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy and international relations in Victorian Britain.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saul David

Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. She reveals that our obsession with royal bedrooms,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathryn Warner

Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing clues to an unsolved case: a concentration camp...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Caroline Sturdy Colls

Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a team of experts, Worsley recreates the most...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hannah Sieh

A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy' - every film a crime. ...

Genre: Documentary

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Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in Britain - approximately 14 people a week. This...

Genre: Documentary

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Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carla Valentine

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janina Ramirez

Mary Berry discovers the rich history of Great Britain's greatest stately homes through the prism of food.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Berry

An enthralling series exploring how the BBC fought not only Hitler but also the British government to become the institution it is today.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Will Adamsdale

Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian London through the excavations at St James's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alice Roberts

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Pretenders was a 13 episode British television series produced by Harlech Television in the UK in February 1972 on ITV. Pretenders was filmed in...

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Cast: Frederick Jaeger

This 2-part documentary series reveals the truth about King Edward VIII's affair with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and the espionage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Samuel West

Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Humphries

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of the UK's greatest writers - Jane Austen, Thomas...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gyles Brandreth

History series telling the glorious and gory story of the city's rise to power.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Suzannah Lipscomb

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Meades

A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Margaret Thatcher

Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Wood

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David Dimbleby. The seven part series was first aired...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Dimbleby

With 1066, Professor Jennifer Paxton's exciting and historically rich six-lecture course, experience for yourself the drama of this dynamic year in...

Genre: Documentary

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Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Moss