How did a small island once rule over a quarter of the world's population? This shared history still shapes us today - and billions of people are part of its story.

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led...

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and ...

Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Emp...

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

At the world-famous Explorers Club, a gathering place for trailblazers, club member Josh Gates recou...

How the constitution of the largest Democratic Republic in the world was created.

The naturalist visits uncharted territory in pursuit of new discoveries. Steve Backshall takes on ph...

Mankind The Story of All of Us is an epic 12-hour television event about the greatest adventure of a...

EMMY-nominated PBS documentary covering the history of American aviation, from the Wright Brothers t...

Svenska dialektmysterier was a Swedish television series about Swedish dialects. It was hosted by Fr...

It is said to be one of the oldest books in the world. Has it been altered? If yes why? A remarkable...

The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from f...

See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different gro...

Series in which intrepid presenter Kate Humble follows the ancient frankincense trade route of Arabi...

Carla Hall travels around the world to track down the unexpected lineage and international origins o...

Art and culture define us - but in an age of change, who are we now? In divided times, Simon Schama ...

The year 2024 is the 10th year of the Grand Canal's successful application for World Heritage. In or...

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam...

How To Survive the End of the World examines terrifying and scientifically plausible doomsday scenar...