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.

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

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

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...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are fou...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

A BFA Educational media production on western expansion via railroads and the role they played in th...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

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

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

From the legendary times of Romulus and Remus to the present day, the compelling story of the eterna...

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

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

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