Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and Kensington Palace.
About the development scheme for a residential area in the City. Barbican, which will be largely com...

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son...

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Ba...

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently un...

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose...

Exclusive access to the Four Seasons Hotel, London, in the run-up to Christmas. Expect festive photo...

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traf...
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embitter...

An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented a...

First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zul...

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to...

A visual record of London punk life in the late '70s, filled with never-before-seen live concert foo...

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London...

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced u...

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...

1961 documentary about the history and seedy reality of the sex industry in London's Soho.

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar...

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...