Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed.

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

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

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

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

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

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos a...

Told through the tales of love of a retiring film projectionist and a late-blooming actress, the sho...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...
Documentary tracing the remarkable career of one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful comedia...

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

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

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

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

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

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

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