During the turbulent 19th century, a number of brilliant French artists developed the Romantic movement in Paris: writers Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire, painter Eugène Delacroix and composer Hector Berlioz, among others, changed the way of looking at art and created enduring works that have inspired the world to this day.

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people an...

Dr James Fox tells the story of three cities in three exceptional years - cities whose artists and t...
Rageh Omaar visits Spain, Sicily and France to discover the history of Islam in Europe

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, duri...

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European cou...

Bettany Hughes follows in the footsteps of 18th century aristocrats going on a Grand Tour as she tra...

Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous cas...

The history of mankind from prehistoric times to the 20th century.

The Normans is a British television documentary series first aired on BBC Two in 2010. Over three ep...

In an absorbing study, Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of a national art that conveys passion, p...

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps o...

Featuring the minute-by-minute accounts of the brave soldiers who crossed deep into enemy territory ...