Neil Oliver is given exclusive access to a team of historians and scientists investigating the final resting place of Alfred the Great. Alfred's bones have been moved so many times over the centuries that many...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful...

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar...

Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movi...

The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: what did scientists f...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

Mountain men Joseph R Walker was probably the first non-Indian to see Yosemite, in 1833, but not unt...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Does Bigfoot Exist? Join a team of experts as they look into the legend, science and history behind ...

Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be Ki...