Britain and the Start of WW1 | Learning Zone

A soldier's daughter | Learning Zone

Sarah was a child in Bolton during the Second World War. With family friend Tyler, she remembers the outbreak of the war and the effect ...

An evacuee's adventure | Learning Zone

Betty lived in Cardiff during the war and was evacuated to Aberdare. With her family friend, Anesha, she retraces the journey and desc...

Ancient Egypt | Learning Zone

A visit to Ancient Egypt, and life 5000 years ago begins by exploring houses and homes, and contrasting them with our homes today.

Ancient Sumer | Learning Zone

We find out about many of the inventions developed in the area, as well as some of the reasons why the Sumer eventually died out.

Anglo-Saxon Britain | Learning Zone

One of the children is sick, and this is used as a means to explore the different approaches to medicine and medical care in Saxon times.

Baby Games | Learning Zone

Psychiatrist Daniel Stern discusses the ways in which parents play with their babies.

Baghdad Circa 900 AD | Learning Zone

Baghdad at the time was the largest city in the world and was the centre of the world’s great trade routes.

Bar management | Learning Zone

A bar manager gives a short explanation of how his job works and what you need to make it in the industry.

Benin | Learning Zone

Benin is famous for its bronzes. This film explores how they are made, using the 'lost wax' process, and why.

Bronze Age Britain | Learning Zone

Life in Bronze Age Britain through the eyes of one family as they learn how copper and tin is mined, and make bronze using a furnace.

Bronze Age Stonehenge gold | Learning Zone

There are also lots of barrow burials around Stonehenge and one of them, Bush Barrow Man, is used to find out about Bronze Age times.

Bronze Age: making metal | Learning Zone

Raksha visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so.

Bronze Age: wool | Learning Zone

Raksha visits the Bronze Age at an ancient farm and learns how to make woollen cloth.

Canals | Learning Zone

In the 1770s canals linked the country, carrying goods cheaply and efficiently. Without them it is hard to see how the Industrial Revolution could hav...

Children in Roman Britain | Learning Zone

A look at how tough life was for the British Roman children and how their education was limited.

Coal | Learning Zone

The Industrial Revolution changed Britain and the world fundamentally. It began in Britain, and coal was a key factor.

Daily life in Ancient Egypt | Learning Zone

Dr Joann Fletcher visits the village of Pa-Demi to discover more about the daily lives and tombs of Kha and Merit.

Food Service Management | Learning Zone

A quick run-down of how a catering business works.

Head of hotel reception | Learning Zone

Head of reception details how she got into the job and what skills are needed.

How hurricanes are formed by Earth's rotation | Learning Zone

Physicist Helen Czerski explains that hurricanes happen because the earth is rotating. She shows how, because t...

South China Sea Trade | World's Busiest Cities

Hong Kong's busy port is a vital gateway to trade in the South China Sea.

Episode 1 | New York: America's Busiest City

Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anstead and Dan Snow try commuting New York-style, joining 5.5 million commuters on the iconic Sta...

1066 Unpacked | The One Show

Dan Snow recruits a team of volunteers to demonstrate the movements made by the rivals to the throne and how King Harold's armies attempted to d...

04: Learning Zone | Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Aboard a yacht on the seas of the battle, sailor and historian Dan Snow describes the key characters, weapons and stories...

Learning Zone | The Birth of Empire: The East India Company

A compilation of short films made specially for schools on the rise and fall of the East India Company, which acc...

A History of Syria with Dan Snow | This World

Dan Snow travels to Syria to see how the current civil war has been shaped by the country's tumultuous history, unpicking the h...

Episode 1 | D-Day: The Last Heroes

In the first of a two-part series, historian Dan Snow examines how two years of meticulous planning, espionage and the analysis of million...

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.

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...

06: 1973 Middle East | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow unpick the fighting that broke out in 1973. Known by some as the Yom Kippur War, it w...

07: Culloden: The Jacobites' Last Stand | Battlefield Britain

Dan and Peter Snow use computer animation and dramatised testimony to relive defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie's ...