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 ...

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-...

Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open thei...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...
The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music ...

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed co...
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known a...

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

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...

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

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

Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. Sh...