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.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new er...
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sen...

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

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediate...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

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

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

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

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of...

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

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.