A fascinating insight into the role of the bicycle in the First World War - from reconnaissance to transporting ammunition, historian and cycling enthusiast Jeremy Banning explores stories from the battlefield. Ollie Bridgewood discovers the role cycle scouts played in the Army Cycling Corp and rides the original bikes used in the conflict. Mark Beaumont meets the grandson of a WW1 soldier who rode for the Highland Cyclist Battalion and survived brutal combat on the front line.
A cinematic mountain-bike film. Featuring some of the sports biggest athletes. The ninth feature fro...
Tulsa Tough is one of the hardest, fastest, most prestigious criterium races in the United States of...
Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond, who is now the first and only American to win the Tou...
A portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himsel...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 191...
The Battle of the Falklands, between a Royal Navy task force and five German cruisers, was one of th...
Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...
The film Together we cycle investigates the critical events that has led to the revival of the Dutch...
An in-depth portrait of British composer, pianist and singer Elton John, pop star and myth of modern...
The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport wit...
United by their renegade spirit and a determination to win against substantial odds, these riders ta...
The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.
Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving ...
"Go Further" explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational...
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, histori...
A short documentary about the 1962 Tour-de-France. Topics covered include: crowds of people and moto...