Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about one of the most compelling of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga. This hour-long film explores how the unique literary achievements of the Saga writers were possible at a time of such immense cultural, political and religious upheaval.

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding s...

The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive for...

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

A band of vikings are on the run from a blood thirsty group of Berserkers who want to fight to the d...

Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de Fr...
This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-y...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...