Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Julius Caesar, and to challenge public perception, exploring Caesar's surprising legacy.
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
After the death of Octavian, the rebel populations of Illyria and Pannonia pose a grave threat to th...
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
Filmmaker Irene Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation in her...
Going to the very heart of the Bible's most challenging Book, this one hour documentary decodes the ...
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...
Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movi...
Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...
India’s first underwater war film tries to decode the mystery behind the sinking of Pakistani submar...
It was the battle that decided the future of Europe: on August 26, 1278, two dynasties faced each ot...
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families fr...
A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...