James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Meccano, Lego, Scalextric and Airfix. James's all-time number one is the train set.

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

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

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

Filmmaker Irene Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation in her...

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

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...

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

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

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new er...
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benj...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...