04: The Line | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

02: Great Plains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of...

03: Industrial New York | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow looks at 19th century New York when migrants arrived in a city consumed by squalor, stench and soot.

Cowboys and cattle | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets a third generation cowboy and learns about life as a rancher on the Great Plains, running cattle drives.

Seven Journeys In The American West | Secondary Schools

The story of the American West through the words of seven eye-witnesses - settlers, gold diggers, ranchers, homestead...

01: Custer's Last Stand | The Wild West

Drama-documentary exploring General Custer's motives when, on a blistering hot Sunday in June 1876, 366 men of his 7th Cavalry attack...

02: Billy the Kid | The Wild West

Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by t...

The Oregon Trail | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains the route Pioneers would take through the Great Plains and how naturally this was dictated by a river.

The Homestead Act | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray visits old sod-houses built during the Homestead Act. The scheme encouraged families to grow crops off the P...

09: Disaster at Roanoke | This Sceptred Isle: Empire

Christopher Lee's ground-breaking narrative history series telling the story of the growth of Britain's Empire: Disaster...

The Pioneers | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains what kind of people the Pioneers were and why they headed West to find a new way of life.

03: Deserts | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonora...

Blackfeet | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets the descendants of the Blackfeet Native American tribe. The plentiful bison were the lifeblood of the tribes a...

Pilgrim origins | The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

The Pilgrims' story that ''Thanksgiving'' celebrates had a tricky beginning. A group of Evangelists were ousted fro...

Scotland and the Klan

Documentary in which Neil Oliver explores the possible links between racism in America's Deep South and the Scottish settlers that first occupied it.

The Donner Party | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of Pioneers who chose some poor routes through the Sierra Nevada...

01: Mountains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - ...

02: CS Mackay-Bennett | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

David tells the story of CS Mackay-Bennett, a cable repair ship launched on the Clyde in 1884. She k...

03: The Gunfight at OK Coral | The Wild West

Drama-documentary after the famous shoot-out, Wyatt Earp was charged with murder and put on trial. So, was Wyatt Earp truly guil...

America's hidden histories | Assignment

It’s more than 150 years since the end of the American Civil War. But the replacement of a monument dedicated to the Confederate Comm...

Buffalo killings | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Between 1800 and 1890, the Pioneers killed over 30 million bison, leaving them nearly extinct in North America.