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An adaptation of the two parts of Henry IV.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Pickup

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Niven

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

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

Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open their very own micropub and revitalise their high...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martyn Hillier

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

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Finch

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

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Farnaby

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Benson

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Max Adrian

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

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

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

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

Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Turgoose

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

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

Through dramatic reconstructions and his own passionate narration, Dr. David Starkey, the controversial Tudor historian, profiles the six women who...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Starkey

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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