21: 1968: New Release | People’s Century

04: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nat...

05: New Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well durin...

07: 1982 Falklands | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of how the British fought back to regain control of the Falkland Islands...

Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story

Featuring compelling testimony, this is the story of 15 men and women and one life-changing year on the front line of the most divisive con...

Margaret Thatcher | Icons

Britain's first female prime minister, Thatcher was marked out not only by her gender, but for pushing through reforms so bold they have shaped the...

Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History

Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-century deep...

S01E01: The Death of Diana | Days That Shook the World

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997, in a Paris car crash.

S03E04: The Two Winstons | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Examining the 20th century through the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who both wrote about the...

Winston Churchill | Icons

From the battlefields of the Boer war, to the blitzed streets of wartime London, Trevor examines the qualities that made Churchill such a towering ...

04: Sea Change | Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

Dan Snow looks at how the 19th-century Navy used gunboat diplomacy to push British interests furthe...

Hull's Headscarf Heroes

The story of Hull's triple trawler tragedy fifty years ago in 1968, in which 58 deep sea fishermen died, and the protest by local women who fought fo...

S02E03: Burning Belief | The Battle for Britain's Soul

The emergence of secularism in the 20th century presented the Church with an unprecedented test and provoked a critica...

S03E01E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.

S11E01: Brighton Bomb | Secret History

What if Patrick Magee and his accomplices had succeeded and blown up Mrs. Thatcher?

01: Leaders | Icons

Trevor examines the lives of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. He discovers exactly what made each of t...

02: Churchill | Secrets of Leadership

Andrew Roberts reveals many of Churchill's weaknesses as a subordinate in charge of the Royal Navy, and the great strengths they became...

02: Distant War | The World at War

An uneasy calm settles on Britain as Churchill replaces Chamberlain as prime minister.

09: Churchill | Great Britons (2002)

In the final documentary of the series, MP Mo Mowlam argues for Winston Churchill as the greatest Briton, portraying him as an inspirati...

20th Century Wrap: 03: 1930s: What Depression? | History File

This programme covers the 30's and the extent of the depression. Contemporay film-makers recorded a vivid pict...

Harold Wilson | Panorama

Profile of Harold Wilson and Alec Douglas-Home on the election trail from 19 October 1964.