In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

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

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional Br...
Rageh Omaar visits Spain, Sicily and France to discover the history of Islam in Europe

Shortly after astrology predicts destruction to befall the Tang Dynasty, a coup d'état led by the cr...

Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of the...

In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subp...

At the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents t...

3D CGI adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley E...

The story of how women have fought their way into the world of sport, an arena jealously guarded by ...

Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civi...

A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winsto...

Lincoln (aka Sandburg's Lincoln) is an American six-part miniseries broadcast on NBC from September ...
Tells the story of the succession of royal power in the Xia Dynasty and Shao Kang’s restoration of t...

The incredible, true story of the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha’s efforts to support her country d...

Jesus of Nazareth, the founding figure of Christianity, is also an exceptional character in the Kora...

The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers spar...

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

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

Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work th...