04: The Winner Takes It All 77-79 | The 70s

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...

02: Doomwatch 73-74 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.

01: The Sound of the Crowd | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of cho...

02: Under Pressure | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. By the mid-80s, Britain felt like an embattled nation, struggling to establi...

02: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher struggles to cling to power as the economy collapses, riots break out and she is subverted by members of her own...

01: Making Margaret | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Margaret Thatcher's inner circle reveals how she managed to overcome her outsider status to become a prominent poli...

01: Building a New Society | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a ...

04: That Bloody Woman | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal ...

05: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, le...

S02E04: The Great Train Robbery | Days That Shook the World

The Great Train Robbery on August 8, 1963.

02: A Brave New World | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr explores how Britain since 1952 has coped with the loss of empire, America's cultural and political heg...

I Hate the Sixties: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True

Documentary exploring the myth of the 1960s and "Swinging Britain." The decade's social revolution led to a fragm...

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...

03: Made in Britain | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

During the Queen's long reign, Britain's heavy industries have faced devastating decline. Andrew Marr picks the 'New ...

Episode 1 | The Major Years

The former PM talks frankly about his early years and his colleagues describe his rise to become leader of the country.

Liverpool in the sixties | A House Through Time

David Olusoga explores the boom in art, music and culture in Liverpool during the swinging sixties.

Nukes, Subs & Secrets

What did Scotland do in the Cold War? We travel the length of the country, from an underground bunker to a remote Hebridean test site, to find out.

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.

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.