Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning scientific innovations and political intrigue. Fifteen years after Concorde's final flight, this documentary takes you inside the historic international race to develop the first supersonic airliner. Hear stories from those inside the choreographed effort to design and build Concorde in two countries at once - and the crew members who flew her.

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

Ireland's history is steeped in religion and mystery. Why did its people stop worshipping the earth ...

For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

The first Brazilians who engaged in aviation, from Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão with his hot air ba...
The full-length television documentary, using currently found audio-visual records, tells the story ...

Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...

During the women's demonstration on March 8, 1972, Mariasilvia SPOLATO was there with a placard: Lib...

When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...

On May 1, 1994, Roberto Cabrini announced the death of Ayrton Senna on national television and, sinc...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the hist...

Born into a family of actors, Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve's older sister, began her career ...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful...

As politicians debate and argue, the men, women and children at the heart of the European immigratio...