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?

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

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

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s sw...
A series of interviews with students living in London reveals the dangers present in the capital's n...

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

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
They are young, all-American girls who enjoy horse riding, karate and Sherlock Holmes. But there's m...

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

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

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...

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

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

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known a...

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...

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

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of Fra...