A major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976. About the life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It followed the ship on a five and a half month deployment to North America in 1976 & the follow up years later to find out about some of the characters.

Historian Dan Snow charts the defining role the Royal Navy played in Britain's struggle for modernit...

Drama documentary about Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, who terrorised the British colonies ...

Documentary series exploring everyday life on board various ships in the Royal Navy fleet.

Built especially for the challenging conditions of Antarctica, HMS Endurance is the Royal Navy’s onl...

Devonport is the largest naval base in Western Europe, home to most of the surface fleet and the nav...

The HMS Ark Royal carried the Harrier and 3 types of helicopter during its active service, these inc...

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises t...

The story follows fisherman Ed Collier, who is highly protective over his family, which includes wif...

Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 197...

Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of...

A four-part history of the Inquisition, a 500-year campaign against heretics by the Roman Catholic C...

The docu-series E poi il silenzio - Il disastro di Rigopiano tells the story of the tragedy of the R...
A historical exploration about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and the preserved Roman city it l...
What does Christmas mean to some of our best-loved personalities? Anita Rani meets three famous face...

A kaleidoscopic portrait told in two parts tracing the life of the imaginative artist.