Urban Environments

01: Peace | Welcome to Rio

Documentary series exploring Rio's shanty-towns, the favelas. In Cantagalo, delivery man Rocky carries goods up the steep staircases overlooking C...

01: Living in the City | Andrew Marr's Mega Cities

Documentary in which Andrew Marr looks at how people live in five of the world's biggest megacities: London, Dhaka, Tokyo,...

Episode 1 | Kevin McCloud: Slumming It

A two-part documentary detailing a two-week stay in Mumbai's Dharavi slum.

Episode 1 | Welcome to Lagos

A look at life in the Olusosun rubbish dump, where around 1,000 people live on top of the rubbish in houses built from scrap.

02: Cities on the Edge | Andrew Marr's Mega Cities

Andrew Marr takes a look at safety and security, two of the biggest challenges faced by each and every metropolis, visitin...

02: Mexico City | World's Busiest Cities

In Mexico City, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan uncover the hidden systems and armies of people that help run this sprawling m...

03: Mumbai | Slum Survivors

Young Brits embark on a crash course in urban survival in the world's biggest slums. Three plumbers learn to plumb the local way in the open sewe...

Episode 1 | Welcome to India

Documentary series which explores life in India. It follows two people as they try to carve out homes - one in Kolkata and the other on a Mumbai...

Episode 2 | Kevin McCloud: Slumming It

A two-part documentary detailing a two-week stay in Mumbai's Dharavi slum.

Rubbish Heap | Welcome to Lagos

How people are adapting to life in Lagos informal settlements, which includes sorting through and recycling everything in the Olusosun rubbis...

01: Lagos | Slum Survivors

In Lagos, Nigeria, three British mechanics are guided and challenged for ten days by extraordinary slum dwellers who use dedication, passion and g...

Jakarta the Megacity | Equator from the Air

The impacts of the rapid growth of the megacity Jakarta.

Episode 1 | Streets of Gold: Mumbai

India's one-percenters throw open their doors on a life of unparalleled luxury and decadence in the boom town of Mumbai, with vertical pa...

Earthquake prediction | World's Busiest Cities

The vital importance of earthquake prediction in Mexico City.

Water Shortage | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.

Episode 2 | Streets of Gold: Mumbai

The hustle is on across the city from the beach parties on the seafront to Asia's biggest slum to the Taj Mahal Hotel as wedding fever ta...

Earthquake protection | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates the devastating impact that earthquakes are having on the city. He visits an organisation that save peop...

Urban Sprawl | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits residents of Mexico City that have built their own housing.

The Cable Car | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan views Mexico City from the cable car system.

Building upwards | World's Busiest Cities

Earthquake protection in Mexico City's building design.

Episode 2 | Welcome to Lagos

This episode follows those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon, including a father of 18 who lives in a house built on sti...

03: Ingenuity | Welcome to Rio

This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.

Slums | Welcome to Lagos

The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.

02: War | Welcome to Rio

A look at Rio's drug-trafficking favelas, being 'pacified' by the government's special forces ahead of the World Cup in increasingly violent incursi...

01: A Place to Live | Supersized Earth

Dallas Campbell climbs the world's tallest building and dives beneath Mexico City.

02: Revolutionary Paris | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow sniffs out the French revolution to explore how Paris was once buried in an inescapable stench.

Rural to Urban Migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

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.

Episode 3 | Welcome to Lagos

This last episode follows Esther, who lives in a scrap house on the beach in central Lagos. Her village has repeatedly been bulldozed by governm...

The Megacity Project | Welcome to Lagos

South China Sea Trade | World's Busiest Cities

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

Trade | World's Busiest Cities

Global trade in Hong Kong's busy harbour.

Water Shortage | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.

Globalisation and Immigration | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani visits Chungking Mansions, a culturally diverse location in Hong Kong, where people from over hundred count...

Accommodation in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits a type of shared accommodation in Hong Kong that many are forced to live in due to extortionate housin...

Get Rich or Die Young | Panorama

Richard Bilton visits Stockton, the town with the country's worst health inequality, to investigate variances in life expectancy between it ...

06: Urbanisation | World 2000

Can cities sustain the amount of people living in them? How can people improve them?

02: The Way We Move | Supersized Earth

Dallas Campbell explores how we can travel further and faster than ever.

Slum Clearance | Welcome to Lagos

How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.

Urban Sprawl | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits residents of Mexico City that have built their own housing.

03: Laying the Foundations | Building the Olympic Dream

With nine billion pounds to spend on creating an Olympic Park, London 2012's bosses face some big challenges.

02: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream

The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.

01: 24 Hour Britain | Britain from Above

Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.

Carpenter Estate | Inside Out

Ayshea Buksh meets the angry residents of a Stratford estate trying to stop the council bulldozing their homes for the Olympic Park in Stratford.

Students in Suburbia - Newcastle | We Are England

Once a quiet residential suburb on the outskirts of Newcastle, Jesmond is being taken over by students and anti-social beha...

S01E02 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the residents of the house in Liverpool ...

S03E01E1 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...

S02E01 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a docto...

S02E02 | A House Through Time

Tracing the residents from the 1880s to 1900s, David discovers a family torn apart by catastrophe. The house becomes a refuge for destitute str...

Episode 2 | The Mighty Redcar

Kaitlyn is about to get her GCSE results whilst also facing the prospect of her and her mum having to move house again.

Episode 1 | The Mighty Redcar

Real-life soap opera, filmed over a year in North Yorkshire. Mum and daughter Kat and Kaitlyn have had a tough time over the last few years but...

S01E03 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the story from 1891 to 1945, through two...

S01E04 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga traces the history of the house in Liverpool fro...

S02E03 | A House Through Time

Tracking the house's occupants in the early 20th century, David finds a boarding house landlady whose family is threatened by war and a young c...

S02E04 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga uncovers infidelity and divorce, traces a WWII prisoner to Ravensworth Terrace, and sees the house fall into disrepair before it ...

S03E02 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the a...

S03E03 | A House Through Time

Investigating the residents of No 10 Guinea Street, David Olusoga discovers a struggling entrepreneur and a World War I tragedy, and unmasks th...

S03E04 | A House Through Time

David investigates the house’s history from World War II to the present, discovering tales of mystery and crime, before seeing the house renewe...

S04E02 | A House Through Time

A ruthless factory owner is hit by an arson attack, a pacifist couple make a stand and one man sets sail for a life on the glamourous Atlantic ...

S04E03 | A House Through Time

David follows the trails of a traumatised soldier on the run, a family man at breaking point and one resident who developed an interest in the ...

Episode 1 | Commonwealth City

It's 2010 - four years to go to the Commonwealth Games, much of which will take place in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow.

HS2: The Railway that Blew Billions | Panorama

HS2 was meant to be the railway of the future, but more than a decade on, the project is mired in uncertainty. Richard Bilton ...

03: Laying the Foundations | Building the Olympic Dream

With nine billion pounds to spend on creating an Olympic Park, London 2012's bosses face some big challenges.

02: The City | Britain from Above

Comparing exhaustive footage of London in the 40s with the city of today.

02: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream

The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.

S08E08: The North-South Divide | Timeshift

Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality following the de...

Episode 1 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

Documentary series meeting the people living and working in the eye of Manchester's remarkable housing boom.

Episode 1 | The Tower

Five years after Lewisham council sold off one of its riverside tower blocks to be turned into chic apartments, the transformation of the Tower is due ...

Episode 1 | Mind the Gap: London v the Rest

While much of the UK still struggles after the financial crash, London is thriving like never before. In the first of two program...

The Cable Car | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan views Mexico City from the cable car system.

Episode 4 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

At a consultation event, Anne and Donna learn a tower block is proposed near their homes. Donna's elderly father is desper...

HS2: End Of The Line?

The controversial train line has cost billions and left those along the route stranded. What next for HS2? BBC News Transport correspondent Katy Austin...

Episode 4 | The Tower

With the show flats in the Tower selling fast, two prospective purchasers are excited by the dream of modern living.

Episode 2 | The Tower

The last tenant has been removed from the ex-council tower block and the developers can now start the renovation.

How to Save the High Street | Panorama

Business journalist Adam Shaw investigates the government's plans to spend millions of pounds reviving run-down town centres.

S02E05: Train Depot | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

On the last leg of their tour around Britain's workplaces Stacey Dooley gives our five kids a last chance to prove they...

Urbanising rural environments in China | This World

Life in a rural community in China, that will soon become a city due to government urbanisation plans.

04: Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream | Why Poverty?

Film looking at inequality in the US through the prism of two near-adjacent Park Avenues - one an exclus...

Episode 3 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

As towers rise on the skyline, homeless people and low-income earners are often forced into shelters when the city's affor...

Episode 2 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

Property developer Tim hits a million-pound problem in the mill he is converting into apartments, while less than a mile a...

The Fastest Changing Place on Earth | This World

Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government ur...

02: London | The Greatest Cities In The World

In his own capital, Britton Griff starts contemplating how London continuously grew from a new Roman town to Europe's single-mo...

06: Big City, Bright Lights | James May's 20th Century

Each day 180,000 people move into a city somewhere on the planet. James May investigates how the high-rise urban livin...

S01E01 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the stories of the first inhabitants of ...

06: Revolution | British Isles: A Natural History

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse and extreme. He explores a time when industry ch...

The Irish Famine | Europe: A Natural History

Sean Pertwee chronicles the events which shaped the continent of Europe. This edition looks at the rapid transformation of the l...