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Schindler's List (1993)

Wheeler-dealer Oskar Schindler exploits the German confinement of Jews to build a business, but the cruelty of Nazi officers, including the vicious A...

Episode 1 | The Secrets of Everything

Science daredevil Greg Foot finds out what humans taste of, whether the human race could move the planet by jumping at exactly the same...

Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Michael Mosley examine how viruses effect the human body and how they spread, as well as examing how to st...

Causes of climate change | Curriculum Bites

A look at climate change over a range of timescales. Long term changes include changes in the Sun's output, the orbit of the Eart...

Art Behind Bars | True North

For the first time since his release, Stephen Greer returns to the prison where he learnt to paint to teach art to offenders. Will art transform...

Drinking Our Rivers Dry? | Panorama

As concerns rise over Britain's water supply, Simon Boazman investigates whether the water industry and its regulators are doing enough t...

Behind the beehive | The Code

Marcus du Sautoy explains why bees choose to use a hexagon to build their honeycomb structure rather than the triangle or the square.

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Drama illuminating a doctor's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic as millions of soldiers ...

03: Brazil 2000: Work: Sao Paulo | The Geography Programme

Series looking at Brazil from a geography perspective.

The Red Nose African Convoy | Comic Relief

Michaela Coel, David Baddiel, Russell Kane, Hugh Dennis, Katy Brand and Reggie Yates lead a Comic Relief convoy through east Afric...

Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea | Timewatch

The story of the massacre at No Gun Ri during the Korean War, one of the worst atrocities committed by American troops...

The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

The extraordinary story of how a small Scottish bank grew to become the biggest in the world before collapsing and triggering the largest ...

01: Steel | Made in Great Britain

The makers experience Sheffield's transformation into an industrial powerhouse known as 'Steel City', famous throughout the world for makin...

Elon Musks 1trn pay deal | BBC News

Tesla boss Elon Musk has had a record-breaking pay package that could be worth nearly $1tn (£760bn) approved by shareholders. The unprece...

Episode 1 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

Two young MPs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, are determined to modernise the Labour party against a backdrop of economic ...

Huguenots and silk | The Great British Sewing Bee

Claudia Winkleman explains the history of the Huguenots, their fleeing to Britain and how they affected the silk trade.

01: Race to Kamina | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

Uncovering the real story of the first Allied victory in World War One. Akwasi Sarpong travels to Togo in West Africa.

Episode 1 | The Trench (2002)

Fear, fatigue and cold daily life in a First World War trench is relived in this three-part series. Based on diaries kept by the 10th Battalion...

Men of the Manosphere

James Blake joins three young men to explore why they've turned to the so-called manosphere to achieve success, and how it's influenced their real lives.

Jamestown colony | Empire with David Olusoga

In Jamestown, David looks at evidence of the first English colonies in the Americas and their tobacco plantations.

Calum Cille: An Naomh Dana/Columba - The Bold Saint

He was at the centre of a bloody battle and founded a monastery that became a beacon of civilisation in the Early Middle ...