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.
The comedian explores the British isles in her vintage camper van, Helen, taking in some dramatic sc...
A series of four documentaries filmed behind the scenes at London Zoo as it fights for its future.
In this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year is r...
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...
History series telling the glorious and gory story of the city's rise to power.
This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of t...
This two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexua...
An ordinary night bus has been kitted out with cameras for this series, witnessing the funny, surpri...
The Normans is a British television documentary series first aired on BBC Two in 2010. Over three ep...
Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is withou...
Nick Knowles challenges ten people with different mental health issues to run the London Marathon. W...
Following workers across the capital for three years as they race to build an enormous super sewer o...
Documentary series going behind the scenes at London's Corinthia hotel, looking at how it tries to s...
What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death expe...
Billy Connolly undertakes a personal journey to evaluate and explore the ways in which we deal with ...
Documentary series following the salvage of seven shipwrecks from the river Thames
Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health o...
Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civi...