On December 4, 1872, the unmanned Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic with its cargo fully intact. The mystery of this "ghost ship" remained unanswered for over 135 years. What happened to the Mary Celeste is widely regarded as the most famous mystery of the sea. Watch it unfold to its stunning conclusion, at last.

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to deliver a message from the grieving families of...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when t...

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...

An unexpected speeding freight train ploughs into the film crew, a camera assistant is struck and ki...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of t...

The revealing, no-holds-barred tale of Christian Dawkins, convicted in federal court in the biggest ...

Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battl...

For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by T...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

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