Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitane, through the Late Middle Ages with Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou and finishing with Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

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

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

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

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

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

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...