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.

Episode 2 | Kevin McCloud: Slumming It

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Water Shortage | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.

Jakarta the Megacity | Equator from the Air

The impacts of the rapid growth of the megacity Jakarta.

02: Jakarta | Slum Survivors

Young Brits embark on a crash course in urban survival in the world's biggest slums. Three trainee chefs swap their clean UK kitchens for street...

Pollution Problems | World's Busiest Cities

How Mexico City is tackling pollution.

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...

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.

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...

02: Revolutionary Paris | Filthy Cities

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

01: A Place to Live | Supersized Earth

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

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.

Slums | Welcome to Lagos

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

Rural to Urban Migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

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...

02: The Way We Move | Supersized Earth

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

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 ...

The Megacity Project | Welcome to Lagos

Soviet Russia | World's Busiest Cities

The social and political history of Moscow.

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...

Slum Clearance | Welcome to Lagos

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

The Kremlin | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow visits the heart of Russia politics, the Kremlin.

Episode 2 | Mind the Gap: London v the Rest

Britain is becoming one country with two economies - London and the rest. In the second of two programmes, Evan Davis asks what t...

Transport in London | Top Gear

The presenters compete in an epic race across London to see what is the fastest method to cross a major city.

06: Urbanisation | World 2000

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

Episode 3 | Welcome to India

This follows three families as they search for a better life today and for generations to come.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Fighting for Air

Dr Xand van Tulleken stages the first ever large-scale experiment of its kind, looking for ways to reduce air pollution in the UK. Can air quality be improv...

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: The Rioters | The Riots: In Their Own Words

The story of the riots of 2011, using accounts from the rioters themselves as well as previously unseen footage to tell the s...

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...

London - National Park City? | Countryfile

Daniel Raven-Ellison is on a mission to make London the World's first National Park City. Alongside better-known parks like Dartmo...

02: The Police | The Riots: In Their Own Words

The story of the riots of 2011, told through first-hand accounts from both the police on the frontline and in the control room...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

S04E04 | A House Through Time

The Second World War puts our residents in danger. Leeds is a shock to a Greek war bride with a tragic past and a return for students who lived...

Episode 4 | The Mighty Redcar

Billy is about to make a tough decision - does he start a career at 16 or go to college?

Episode 3 | The Mighty Redcar

As Jess's apprenticeship draws to a close, she needs to find a new job or risk not being able to do what she loves.

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 | 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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

02: The City | Britain from Above

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

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...

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...

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 | The Tower

Inside the Tower, the interior designers are hard at work creating the dream of sky-high modern urban living.

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 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...

Plymouth regeneration | Spotlight

Feature about Plymouth in the '80s and how the town plan its regeneration.

Episode 2 | Commonwealth City

The fortunes of the community in Dalmarnock. Steven's future looks uncertain when his job comes to an end. And Darren receives some devastating...

Episode 3 | Commonwealth City

The fortunes of the community in Dalmarnock. After securing funds for a new community centre, councillor Yvonne must find available land for it...

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.

Milton Keynes at 50 | Inside Out East

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Milton Keynes.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...