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On the centenary of Sarah Bernhardt's death, we take a look back at the whimsical life of the whimsi...
The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a youn...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th...
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
The epic story of Thomas Edward Lawrence the First World War military officer who united the tribes ...
In the Faroe Islands, hundreds of pilot whales are slaughtered each year in a hunt known as the “Gri...
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their ...
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved ...
How did humanity's earliest ancestors evolve into one of the most successful species on Earth? An ex...
Zoo-archeologists, biologists, ethologists and geneticists are leading the investigation. For one th...
In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scienti...
In the northern hemisphere, snow is produced by atmospheric low pressure areas that move in from the...
The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from wo...
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Eur...