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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...

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...

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...

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...

21: 1968: New Release | People's Century

The baby boom produced a cohort of children in the affluent and secure post-war world who for the first time would question establis...

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...

01: 1900: Age of Hope | People's Century

At the beginning of the twentieth century the world was stable and certain, but unequal. The Paris Exhibition of 1900 symbolises the...

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...

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...

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...

02: Distant War | The World at War

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

04: Guns and Government | Endgame in Ireland

In February 1991, Prime Minister John Major survived an IRA mortar attack. But this wasn't the only message he received from the...

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...

Hacking: Power, Corruption and Lies | Panorama

Panorama Special in which Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's fo...

Hanratty | Panorama

James Hanratty (also known as the A6 Murderer) was a British criminal who was one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punis...

Harold Wilson Interview | Panorama

Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...

Postwar: E19: Post-postwar | Politically

When did the postwar period end?

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

The Great Train Robbery on August 8, 1963.