05: Constantine | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

01: Boudicca's Rebellion | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow on the battles that shaped our nation, starting almost 2,000 years ago with the revolt of the Iceni, led by...

01: The Bodies | Pompeii: The New Dig

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation, where they find a bakery, a wealthy house and a fresco of a s...

01: Nero | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics tell the story of ancient Rome. This programme focuses on Nero, charti...

03: The Final Hours | Pompeii: The New Dig

In Pompeii, the excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery and laundry reaches its climax with chilling revelations about what people w...

S01E01: Dark Ages | The Worst Jobs In History

Some of the worst jobs of the Dark Ages in Britain were mining gold for the Romans, ploughing fields with a wooden plough and o...

Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time

Margaret Mountford examines new evidence to reveal the sequence of events that destroyed the city of Pompeii and attempts t...

Episode 2 | Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

Catharine Edwards explores the lives of Messalina, whose scandalous reputation lives on, and the ski...

03: Attila the Hun | Heroes and Villains

Exploring the myth of the crude savage Attila. Part genius, part psychopath, Attila is unlike the other Huns. A calculating, ruthles...

06: The Fall of Rome | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

In AD 410, the Goth hordes sacked the city. This event symbolised Rome's collapse, but it should never ha...

Caligula with Mary Beard

Professor Mary Beard explores the life of Caligula. Many extraordinary stories surround the Roman emperor, but are they true? Mary attempts to peel ...

Episode 1 | Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

Professor Catharine Edwards explores the story of Livia, wife of the emperor Augustus and mother of ...

Episode 3 | Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

In this episode, she takes an in-depth look at the question of identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire.

Episode 3 | Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

Professor Catharine Edwards follows the stories of four very different women across centuries that s...

Gladiator (2000)

Maximus Decimus Meridius, heir and favoured general of the Roman emperor, is betrayed by the emperor's son Commodus and enslaved to a gladiator trainer.

Hannibal: The Man, the Myth, the Mystery

Documentary portraying of one most enigmatic figures of the ancient world, Hannibal, who in a series of spectacular battles, brought...

S12E01: Beasts Of The Roman Games | Secret History

Documentary looking at the politics and practicalities of laying on games in Imperial Rome.

The Man Who Saved Rome

An examination of the sinews of Roman power, from the army through to engineering, told through the biography of Vespasian, who saved the Empire from ...

01: Age of Conquest | Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby charts the last 2,000 years of Britain through its art and treasure. The first part begins with the Roman invasion...

01: Hitting the Road | On Hannibal's Trail

Three brothers cycle on the trail of ancient warrior Hannibal. On the east coast of Spain, they pass through Elche's palms, Benido...

02: Barca! Barca! Barca! | On Hannibal's Trail

The Wood brothers cycle along Spain's east coast, watching a football match at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium and visiting the ...