The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a disease outbreak like it before or since. This film tells the story of skeletons recently unearthed in a long-lost plague cemetery beneath the streets of London. Was it the Bubonic Plague, or as scientists now suspect, an Ebola-like virus?

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahea...

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzhei...

Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk ...

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group ...

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties ...

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously i...
Stamford Hill in North London is home to a community of 30,000 Hasidic Jews. Aiming to preserve a wa...

After a great year for grime, MC Frisco and Risky Roadz go back to its pirate radio roots. - How Pir...

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swing...

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...

A backstage and on-stage look at Nicki Minaj's career during the Pink Friday Tour, festivals, and mo...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

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