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During the reign of Henry VIII much was created buildings, music, artworks. Did this compensate for the destruction of the monastries and their...

Holidays in the Danger Zone is a series of documentaries, originally broadcast on BBC Four in the UK. They have also been shown on BBC Two and...

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the...

These unorthodox military innovations were not developed by chance, each was constructed to solve a tactical or strategic problem, such as overcoming...

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

Naturalist Stewart McPherson travels to all the UK Overseas Territories, exploring their wildlife, landscapes, history and people

Documentary series lifting the lid on the National Trust, filmed over two of the most stressful years in its more than 100-year-old life. The...

Series that follows recent scientific developments as researchers across Europe explore the extraordinary capabilities of plants.

In this series Suzy Klein examines how music transformed throughout the 19th century. The host discusses the political history and the industrial...

From newsreels and films of the early twentieth century, this series gives us a look at how the first half of the 20th Century saw itself.

Three traditional crafts along the ancient trade route of the Silk Road.

Dan Snow and wildlife experts Lucy Cooke and Niall Strawson uncover historical, geological and wildlife treasures live from the Jurassic Coast in...

Journalist and critic Paul Morley spends a year learning the art of musical composition

Documentary series that investigates a momentous event in history, the trial and execution of King Charles I, an act that changed politics and power...

Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss...

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian...

Arabic scholar Tim Mackintosh-Smith journeys 75,000 miles through 40 countries in the footsteps of 14th century traveler Ibn Battutah, who was born...