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?

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the comp...

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...
The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music ...

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

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

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

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

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

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...

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

The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.