S1E4: An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker | Doctor Who (1963-1996)

S10E4: Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction | Timeshift

Documentary which investigates the success of Scandinavian crime fiction, from Stieg Larsson's bestse...

Episode 1 | Great British Photography Challenge

The search for Britain's best amateur photographer begins with a blustery Brighton seafront, a nature assignment in the New F...

Episode 2 | Great British Photography Challenge

The photographers face a speed assignment in the boxing gym, go in search of documenting life in a Birmingham market and are ...

Media | Bitesize Secondary

Using extracts from the BBC archive, this programme goes behind the scenes with the special effects team on Doctor Who and with the Life on Mars c...

Series 1 | Peaky Blinders

Birmingham, 1919: Thomas Shelby controls the Peaky Blinders, one of the city's most feared criminal organisations, but his ambitions go beyond runn...

Hollywood | Age of the Image

James Fox explores the major development of film that occurred in Hollywood, LA and the filmic techniques that were born.

S1E1: An Unearthly Child: An Unearthly Child | Doctor Who (1963-1996)

After discussing their pupil Susan, two teachers follow her to a junkyard. They meet her grandfather, t...

1: 1800-1914: Fixing the Shadows | The Genius of Photography

How a technical problem was solved in 1839, paving the way for practical application.

2: 1918-1945: Documents for Artists | The Genius of Photography

Following World War I, photography was the medium of the age, and used to promote radical utopia.

3: Right Place, Right Time | The Genius of Photography

Photography at its best makes viewers eyewitnesses to events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima.

4: Entertainers | Icons

Kathleen examines the lives of Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie. She uncovers their greatest achievements and explores...

4: Paper Movies | The Genius of Photography

The three decades from the late 1950s onwards were the golden age of photographic journeys and colour photography.

5: Television | Inventions That Changed the World

Jeremy Clarkson looks at the television. He looks at television inventors John Logie Baird and Philo T Farnsworth and it's ...

5: We Are Family | The Genius of Photography

How the medium translates personal relationships into photographic ones, and what happens when photographers turn their cameras ...

6: Snap Judgements | The Genius of Photography

A look at the current state of the art, from phone cameras to digital post-production, and the rediscovery of 19th century tec...

Albert Watson | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

The difference with Albert Watson's landscape photography is that he manipulates the images using any means necessary; in...

Albert Watson | What Do Artists Do All Day?

Documentary following Albert Watson over the course of a day photographing the barren, beautiful landscape of the Isle of Skye.

Angus McBean | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

Archive recordings of Angus McBean reveal his beginnings in the theatre taking portrait photographs of Laurence Olivier.

Ansel Adams | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

Ansel Adams spoke to the BBC a year before his death about some of his most famous landscape photographs.

Beauty in fashion photography | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC

David Hurn was one of the first of the new breed of fashion photographers, who used to shoot in his own s...