A comic and highly subjective portrait of one of the longest lasting careers in show business.
A Tabloid Is Born
Victorian broadsheets bored most ordinary Edwardians stupid. One man knew what they wanted - scandal, celebrities and a few ‘first class murders’.
Mummy's War
25 years after the war, Carole Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands and Argentina
The Last Slave
David Monteith travels to Jamaica and Nigeria to trace the life of his great, great, great grandfather – one of the last slaves taken from Africa by the British.
Obsession: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
The making of the famous Dictionary - and the man
Battle for Warsaw
Against incredible odds, an underground army of irregular volunteers took on the might of the Nazis.
Mary Seacole: The Real Angel of the Crimea
Life of the black Victorian 'doctress' who became a national hero in Britain during the Crimean War.
Killer Wave
The extraordinary story of the tidal wave that devestated SW England in 1607
Time Trail
Local history series showing how history is revealed in landscape and structures
Made in Britain: the Real Arnold Schwarzenegger
Biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Pilate: The Man Who Killed Christ
A ruthless administrator? Or a weakling who ‘washed his hands’? The true story of the man who killed Christ.
Who Killed Thomas Becket?
The untold story of the mysterious ‘fifth man’ responsible for the murder that shocked medieval England.
My Life as a Spy
National Service spent spying on the Russians during the cold war
David Niven
Biography of David Niven
Catherine Zeta Jones
Biography of Catherine Zeta Jones
The Coldest March
Captain Scott's fatal expedition to the South Pole re-examined
The Holocaust Exhibition
A film about the Holocaust
The Real Captain Bligh
Re-evaluating Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the bounty.
Witchfinder General
The story of the Essex Witchfinder Generals
King of Capitalism
Thomas Watson Sr. and the Building of IBM
The Real Rommel
A re-evaluation of the legend of the famous Nazi General.
Empires of Stone
Major series exploring the stories behind the Coliseum, the Great Wall of China and the Acropolis.
The Hand of Stalin
Documentary series on Stalin's legacy.
Hidden History
Biographies on significant black contributors to British society.
Death Train
Stalin's slave labour gangs that built a railway across Siberia.
The Executioners
Arguments for and against capital punishment
Half the Sky
Exploring the lives of four generations of a family in China.
Hidden Children
Jewish adults tell of their experiences through the Second World War
Orphans of Manchuria
Story of Japanese children abandoned in China after World War Two.
Unquiet Graves
The exhumation of a mass grave in the Ukraine.
Forgotten Heroes
The lives of merchant seamen during World War II.
