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5: 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 during...

4: 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 nati...

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...

2: Distant War | The World at War

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

S2E4: The Great Train Robbery | Days That Shook the World

The Great Train Robbery on August 8, 1963.

17: 1959: Endangered Planet | People's Century

Rising consumption patterns extract a huge toll on nature. Toxic contamination in Minamata and Love Canal and the Torrey Canyo...

2: 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 ...

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...

Liverpool in the sixties | A House Through Time

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

Postwar: E18: Churchill: Lion in Winter | Politically

What happened to Winston Churchill in the years after the 1945 general election?

S3E1: 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.

1: 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 ...

1: Leaders | Icons

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

20th Century Wrap: 3: 1930s: What Depression? | History File

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

S10E2: The Comet Cover-Up | Secret History

Documentary about the world's first jet passenger airline, the Comet, which, two years after its launch in 1952, was grounded inde...

S3E4: 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 D...

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...

13: Tough Old Gut | The World at War

Churchill described Italy as the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile', thinking the Allies could cut through it to reach Germany. However,...

26: 1997: Fast Forward | People's Century

Governments around the world liberalise trade and withdraw from intervening in the economy, giving new opportunities to those who a...

3: Flood at Winchester | Cathedral

Documentary drama series that reconstructs events that shaped the building of Britain's cathedrals.Winchester Cathedral faced destruction ...