Maggie & Me

Five Days that Changed Britain

Behind-the-scenes story of five days in May 2010 when the UK's political leaders haggled over the next government. David Cameron, Nick Clegg a...

Black Wednesday

Five years ago Britain was in financial crisis. On a day when speculators made fortunes and the Bank of England lost billions propping up the pound, the prim...

Keeler, Profumo, Ward and Me

Tom Mangold's inside story of the scandal that rocked Britain, showing what it was really like to live with Stephen Ward as he became the scapeg...

01: What Makes Tony Tick | Blair's Thousand Days

Michael Cockerell draws on extensive interviews with the PM and behind-the-scenes footage to analyse what drives Blair, and ...

A Good And Faithful Servant | Dispatches

A look at the role of Bernard Ingham, press secretary to Margaret Thatcher, and the extraordinary influence he wielded throughout he...

Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary

Martin Durkin presents his radical thesis: that Margaret Thatcher was a working class revolutionary, and that she believed capitalism was ...

S07E02: How To Be a Good Prime Minister | Timeshift

Andrew Marr and a panel of experts assess what it takes to be a successful British premier, based on the performance of t...

Westminster's Secret Service

Whips pride themselves on their secrecy and discretion. Reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers their shadowy world and reveals how they operate. Ho...

01: A Huge Fight on My Hands | The Cameron Years

The events that led David Cameron to call, and lose, the 2016 EU referendum, and the seismic impact of that fateful decision...

01: Winston Churchill | Walden on Heroes

The man credited with leading the nation to victory in the Second World War was, according to Walden, arrogant, callous and a milita...

02: The Best Is Yet to Come | The Cameron Years

Examining David Cameron's leadership, from his rise to the top of the Conservative Party in 2005 to his 'sweetest victory' at...

02: The Lady and the Lords | Blair's Thousand Days

New Labour came to power pledging to abolish the 800-year-old right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lo...

A Very Singular Man: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath

Edward Heath was one of the most controversial prime ministers of the 20th century. He took Britain into Europe, but was...

Cabinet Confidential

One-off documentary providing an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers have run their cabinets. Featuring interviews, archive footage...

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

Documentary charting the story of two prime ministers who dominated a decade when Britain changed forever - the 1970s. Featuring interviews...

The Marketing of Margaret | Panorama

Michael Cockerell reports for Panorama on the way Margaret Thatcher's image was created, from 1983.

Darkest Hour (2017)

As the Nazis advance against Britain's European allies, newly elected prime minister Winston Churchill must decide whether to leave neighbouring countrie...

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...

Winston Churchill | Icons

From the battlefields of the Boer war, to the blitzed streets of wartime London, Trevor examines the qualities that made Churchill such a towering ...