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?

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in ...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s sw...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

St James's in London is renowned for being Britain's poshest high street. We meet the characters who...

Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in London, England, gives viewers a tour of the city, includi...

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties ...
They are young, all-American girls who enjoy horse riding, karate and Sherlock Holmes. But there's m...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known a...

This documentary from BT Sport Films celebrates the life of two-time world champion biker Barry Shee...

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with...

A short documentary about the tea drinking culture in the UK and the industry behind it.

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