A stellar cast of historians and experts follow the painstaking efforts to bring this priceless work of art back to the UK, where experts believe it was made, for...

As America approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, This Land traces the dramatic story of how a fragile nation on the Atlantic coast expanded across a...

In 1993, 76 members of a religious sect, called the Branch Davidians, died during an infamous 51-day siege by the FBI. Of these, 23 were British. These are their...

Part 1: Cold War With the threat of nuclear Armageddon dominating politics and seeping into the country’s psyche, a handful of Brits influence the Cold War in ways no-one...

After a lifetime of travels that have taken her across the globe, Joanna Lumley is making her most personal journey yet, travelling around the UK. ...

This two-part documentary tells the inside story of Princess Diana’s 1995 interview with Martin Bashir that shocked the nation, in the process threatening the future of the monarchy and...

With coloured black & white archive of the Nazi death camps, survivors tell their story of Auschwitz. They celebrate life and tell of the fight for survival against extreme...

To mark Remembrance Day 2019, David Lammy MP explores the decisions taken to deny individual memorials for thousands of Black Africans who died in their own continent serving the...

The “hostile environment” of the Windrush Scandal isn’t the first time the British Caribbean community has had to fight to be seen as British. David Olusoga opens secret government...

Filmed over 18 months, this series goes into the heart of the British Army. Through the eyes of the rank and file and the leaders, it shows the challenges...

This is a forensic examination into how and why on the 11th November 1918 the allies gained a decisive victory but also set the world on a collision course...

In intimate interviews with the HRH Prince William and Prince Harry, they talk candidly and in depth about their mother and how her influence has shaped their lives. ...

Australia’s Secret Heroes tells the story of “Z” Special Unit. A remarkable group of men were plucked from the Australian military in World War II, trained in explosives, camouflage,...

One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. ...

Singer and 60’s pop icon Marianne Faithfull investigates her mother’s side of the family and her Jewish ancestry. on the screen ...

Born in the mining village of Essington, in the West Midlands, a place she once famously described as “a cross between ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Crossroads’ “, Meera Syal searches...

Dressed in stiff Edwardian attire, a 60-year-old woman pitches a small white tent in the scorching sandhills on the edge of the Nullarbor. She reigns in the desert, as...

My Mother India tells the story of a mixed marriage set against the tumultuous backdrop of modern Indian history. With an Indian father who collects kitsch calendars, an Australian...