Looks at the engineering of the Knights Templar, the religious order that marked the rise of the Middle Ages, and their amazing buildings in the west of Europe.

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spect...

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal ...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

Known as the setting of "Downton Abbey," Highclere Castle truly was the home of aristocrats and an a...

During one of his campaigns, Malkoçoğlu Ali Bey was taken prisoner by Homer and spent years in a dun...

Join self confessed petrol-head Guy Martin as he learns about the alternative to the internal combus...

Windsor Castle is a wonderful living example of the power and tradition of the Royal Family. For nea...

A promotional film for the Ford Company detailing the introduction of the Cosworth engine into Formu...

Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.

Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the ...

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

Catchy mix of farce and documentary. Portrait of a Berlin theatre company made up entirely of the ho...

The Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disint...

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later n...

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, ...

Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunat...

Take a scenic trip through 1920s North Wales to the sea.

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the f...

André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engi...