BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest Invention.
Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known o...
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...
A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisd...
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of ...
This short film celebrates the hard work, tenacity, and ingenuity of inventors. Highlighted are some...
Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...
Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived fo...
A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.
Shown as part of the BBC's Modern Times series. Think of England shows Parr talking to the many peop...
Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin is far from being a household name, yet he designed the iconic clock ...
Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? German fore...
As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural ...
After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs ar...
A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980...
Timeshift turns back the clock to a time when villains wore silver capes, grannies swooned at the si...
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perh...