Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

Documentary, presented by Lucy Worsley, which uses dramatised testimony to tell the story of a group of working-class women conducting a dange...

Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

In 1913 Suffragette Emily Davison stepped into the path of the King's horse at the Derby. Clare Balding examines the story of Emily,...

Selma (2014)

Biopic chronicling the three-month period in 1965 which saw Dr Martin Luther King Jr lead a turbulent march from Selma to Montgomery in a bid to secure equal vo...

S02E01: Jack the Ripper | Lucy Worsley Investigates

How did the Jack the Ripper case shape the way true crime is covered today? Lucy Worsley investigates how these shocking ...

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...

03: Paradise Lost | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

As the 1960s progress, Harold Wilson takes centre stage in a rapidly changing Britain as the country looks to a f...

Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here

Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost ent...

02: The Land of Lost Content | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace w...

04: Crime and Punishment | What the Victorians Did For Us

Adam Hart-Davis investigates the Victorian innovations that left a lasting impression on British society. In this p...

Suffragette City | A History of the World

It was the campaign that changed the lives of British women forever. Actress Sheila Hancock is given unprecedented access to the Mu...

02: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors...

S10E09: Crime and Punishment: The Story of Capital Punishment | Timeshift

Documentary tracing the story of the ultimate sanction, examining such matters as the protocols of ...

Episode 1 | Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery exploring the origins of the suffragette movement, beginning wi...

20th Century Wrap: 02: 1910s: Why Didn't Suffragettes Win the Vote? | History File

This programme investigates the Suffragette movement.

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...

Martin Luther King Jr | Icons

Martin Luther King Jr was arguably the most influential figure of the civil rights movement, King masterminded a campaign which fought not only...

S10E03: Witchfinder General | Secret History

Documentary account, drawn from court records and testimonies, of how Matthew Hopkins and John Stern convicted hundreds of men, ...

01: Pain | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at t...

Episode 3 | Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became...

Kate Adie's Women of World War One

Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.