The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importance that ushered in the nuclear age, has a dark side: the many events in which people were exposed to radiation, both intentionally and by accident.

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

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

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

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...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

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

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

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

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

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

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

The silence behind the genocide of the Rohingyas in Burma.

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...