In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next as experts explore Ancient Rome's crisis management.

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

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

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

No matter what your age you'll love watching this impressive and comprehensive story of the developm...

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to me...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...