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?
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of...
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
Emilia Fox and Britain’s top criminologist, Professor David Wilson, cast new light on the Jack the R...
This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in t...
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced u...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
Through revealing interviews with experts and victims' families, this gripping documentary examines ...
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fit...
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
1961 documentary about the history and seedy reality of the sex industry in London's Soho.
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
As the use of plastic has gained ground in our lives over the years, there has been an inexplicable ...
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship betwee...
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris....
The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.
Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...