Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes. Lasting just over four days, the Great Smog plunged London into a terrifyingly murky gloom - the acrid pollution seeping into homes, leaving Londoners gasping for breath, shutting down transport and emergency services, and overwhelming hospitals and undertakers alike.
A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Series tracing the events of 1940, when Britain faced alone the threat of invasion and defeat by Hit...

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health o...

UK big-city diversity collides with small town America, as teens from London switch lives, and schoo...

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely...

Through the birth of cinema and the first images recorded in Spain, this series takes viewers on a j...

This series travels the length and breadth of Britain to find out how the Victorians built Britain. ...

Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is withou...

From the first men in their flying machines to World War One, from the first Atlantic crossing to th...

Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific the...

While detectives search for clues among the living, veteran Dauphin County, PA, coroner Graham Hetri...

Martin Boudot, investigative journalist, investigates major environmental scandals around the world:...

History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details ...

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investiga...
London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by...

The story, from 1600 to the present day, of the ruthless competition between Amsterdam (Netherlands)...

The biggest West End shows, the most famous pop acts, the world's most successful dance teachers and...