Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society? Norwegian organist and researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have a solid theory on the subject. Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton decides to travel to Norway to meet him.

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against t...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Na...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

968 AD. The Pandyan assassins gather once again to destroy the Chola dynasty. Now the mighty Chola p...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

In the late 1860s, after becoming engaged to three bachelors in the town, Petra flees from an angry ...

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

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

The Chola kingdom is under threat from forces both internal and external, and with crown prince Aadi...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

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

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...