First transmitted in 1977, this documentary follows three months in the life of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets (also known as the Black Mafia) as they move from their Dover barracks for a tour of duty at the Tower of London. The Royal Green Jackets are light infantry, trained to move fast. Above all they are riflemen and take pride in their reputation of being thinking fighting soldiers.

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WW...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...
A powerful and poignant film in which families and friends of those who have died fighting in Afghan...

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Mike Brewer sets off on a journey of discovery to find out the story of one of the most remarkable a...

How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Ger...

Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles...
During World War One, a British Army corporal tries to save his young friend from a terrible injusti...

Just outside Belfast in 1974, a British soldier faces the realisation that he can't stand by and let...

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at ...