Modern Britain

04: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nat...

07: 1982 Falklands | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow tell the story of how the British fought back to regain control of the Falkland Islands...

05: New Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well durin...

Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story

Featuring compelling testimony, this is the story of 15 men and women and one life-changing year on the front line of the most divisive con...

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...

I Hate the Sixties: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True

Documentary exploring the myth of the 1960s and "Swinging Britain." The decade's social revolution led to a fragm...

01: The Sound of the Crowd | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of cho...

02: Doomwatch 73-74 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.

04: The Winner Takes It All 77-79 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.

S01E01: The Death of Diana | Days That Shook the World

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997, in a Paris car crash.

02: Under Pressure | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. By the mid-80s, Britain felt like an embattled nation, struggling to establi...

S03E04: The Two Winstons | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Examining the 20th century through the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who both wrote about 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 ...

03: Enemies | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade uni...

01: Making Margaret | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Margaret Thatcher's inner circle reveals how she managed to overcome her outsider status to become a prominent poli...

02: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher struggles to cling to power as the economy collapses, riots break out and she is subverted by members of her own...

The Great Falklands Gamble: Revealed

This film reveals the enormous risks Britain took in the Falklands War and how a remarkable victory could have become a devastating defeat.

Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History

Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-century deep...

Hull's Headscarf Heroes

The story of Hull's triple trawler tragedy fifty years ago in 1968, in which 58 deep sea fishermen died, and the protest by local women who fought fo...

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...

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

How black immigrants who made Britain their home came face to face with the government's 'hostile environment'. David Olusoga exposes...

01: Arrival | Windrush (2008)

Series tracing the changes to British national life brought about by the first major influx of people from the Caribbean in 1948. The initial w...

02: Intolerance | Windrush (2008)

The 1959 Notting Hill riots and the first racial killing.

01: Mangrove | Small Axe

The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a lively community hub in London's Notting Hill that was the subject of relentless police raids during th...

Finding My Family - Windrush | Newsround Specials

Seventy years since the Windrush's UK arrival, two kids head to the Caribbean to discover why their grandparents left for a...

04: A British Story | Windrush (2008)

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new black British identity, with black peers in the House of Lords and black celebrities in sport, ent...

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces tha...

The Battle for Brixton

April 1981: unprecedented violence erupts on south London streets, as thousands of local residents fight a pitched battle with the capital's police in...

Episode 1 | Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame

David Hayman presents the first of a two-part documentary exploring Scotland's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Episode 1 | Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

Lenny Henry is joined by a host of famous faces as he celebrates his Caribbean-British heritage and explores how his culture has ...

Glasgow Girls

The compelling story of a group of teenagers with a cause in a musical drama based on the true story of the Glasgow Girls. What started as a grassroots petitio...

Episode 2 | Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

Lenny looks back on his coming of age and explores how he and other second and third-generation British-born Caribbean kids began...

03: A New Generation | Windrush (2008)

Focusing on the education of black children, their search for an identity through their music and lifestyle, and the tragedy of the Ne...

Racism | Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

Kev talks about the everyday racism he experiences as a black man living in England.

The Windrush Years (Part 1) | The Slot

A collection of short snippets of stories from the Windrush generation.

01: Media Portrayal | The Learning Zone

This programme looks at experience of Caribbean/Black community of Britain and their cultural heritage.

05: Education | Small Axe

When 12-year-old Kingsley is transferred to a special-needs school, a group of West Indian women uncover an unofficial segregation policy preventin...

The Toxteth Riots | A House Through Time

In July 1981 riots broke out in Liverpool, following longstanding tensions between police and the black community. David Olusoga inv...

Windrush project | Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

Michaela introduces herself and her family in a sociology project about her heritage and the windrush generation.

Cyrus 1951: Part 1 | Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

Cyrus tells the story of how he met and fell in love with Eunice.

Exploring the Past: Post War Britain

Six young people trace their family histories to find out what life was like in post-war Britain, discovering how society has changed.

The NHS: A Difficult Beginning

The story of the birth of the NHS, revealing how close its opponents came to defeating it and why the some of the fiercest opposition came fro...

Post-war Britain - the development of the National Health Service (NHS) | Exploring the Past: Post War Britain

Kirsty investigates how the newly formed NHS saved the life of...

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Drama illuminating a doctor's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic as millions of soldiers ...

Episode 1 | Benefits Britain 1949

Benefits claimants volunteer to live by the rules of the first year of the welfare state. This first episode asks how the state should supp...

S02E04: Endgame | The Battle for Britain's Soul

Angels over battlefields, the birth of the welfare state, US evangelism and a revolution in sexual freedom are all factors in...

Postwar: 1: The Rejection | Politically

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age. Why did Winston Churchill find himself so decisively r...

Modern British History | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Exam revision programme focusing on the Liberal reforms, women's suffrage, the Home Front, the General Strike, the Depression...

Postwar: E11: Homes for Heroes | Politically

In the end, the election was fought and decided over two main issues: demobilisation and housing.

Postwar: E9: Churchill's 'Gestapo' Broadcast | Politically

Winston Churchill's first election broadcast in 1945 might be remembered as his greatest gaffe.

Postwar: E8: Healthcare for All | Politically

The war changed many things, and access to healthcare was one of them.

Postwar: E7: The Labour Manifesto | Politically

Uniquely in modern British history, the 1945 Labour Manifesto was a genuine bestseller.

Postwar: E6: Appealing to Women | Politically

How did the election reflect the dramatically changed working lives of women?

Postwar: E5: The Soldiers' Election | Politically

During the 1945 election, there were still almost five million servicemen and women.

Postwar: E4: Public Opinion | Politically

How could politicians know what voters were thinking in 1945?

Postwar: E3: The Beveridge Report | Politically

William Beveridge's plan was an answer to the question of what we were fighting for.

Postwar: E2: Mr Churchill and Mr Attlee | Politically

With the war in Europe at an end, Churchill and Attlee became fierce election rivals.

Welfare State In Action | Panorama

A look at Britain's social services, including interviews with Professor Peter Townsend and Anthony Crosland.

Dunkirk (2017)

Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops find themselves in an impossible situation. Christopher Nolan's epic wartime action thriller.

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the ...

Kate Adie's Women of World War One

Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

Documentary about the pioneering project, in 1945, to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Winderm...

Hope and Glory (1987)

Second World War London is Bill's playground, though there are also lessons to be learned as the boy observes the behaviour of the adults around him. J...

02: Road to War | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The country basks in a hot Edwardian summer, but the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo presages world war.

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...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis family travel back in time to reveal how life has changed for northern working-class families over the past 100 years. Their exper...

05: 1940s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

In their final decade of time travel, the Robshaws enter the 1940s and experience a decade overshadowed by war and entirely fuell...

03: 1920s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaws experience a thoroughly modern decade as they enter the 20s. They get a taste of the age's racy reputation as they h...

02: 1910s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family travel back to the 1910s - a decade of feast and famine. Rochelle struggles to feed the family as supplies run...

05: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.

May Blitz: The Seven Days that Rocked Liverpool

For seven days in 1941, Hitler's Luftwaffe relentlessly bombed the strategically vital port of Liverpool. To commemorate the ...

Dunkirk: The Soldiers' Story

Veterans of World War II describe the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the largest military evacuation in history. Their first real experience of ...

04: 1930s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family discover a surprising decade of progress and optimism as they journey through the 30s. Their larder is now stu...

01: 1900s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family travel back in time to the turn of the 20th century, to discover how the food we ate and the way we ate it hel...

02: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.

03: Norwich | Blitz Cities

Myleene Klass goes back to her home county of Norfolk to look into the story of the Baedeker Blitz on Norwich.

Britain and the Start of WW1 | Learning Zone

Dan Snow recreates a map of Europe on the beach to explain how Britain became involved in World War I.

Episode 1 | The Real Peaky Blinders

The origins of the real Peaky Blinders, a mass street gang phenomenon that arose in Birmingham at the end of the 19th century.

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

Documentary, presented by Lucy Worsley, which uses dramatised testimony to tell the story of a group of working-class women conducting a dange...

Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

In 1913 Suffragette Emily Davison stepped into the path of the King's horse at the Derby. Clare Balding examines the story of Emily,...

Episode 1 | Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery exploring the origins of the suffragette movement, beginning wi...

05: Activists | Icons

Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Examining the lives of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller and Mar...

Suffragettes: Battling for Votes

When women were battling to win the vote, Parliament was on the front line. Rosalyn Ball looks back at the Suffragettes' campaign.

Episode 3 | Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became...

Suffragette City | A History of the World

It was the campaign that changed the lives of British women forever. Actress Sheila Hancock is given unprecedented access to the Mu...

20th Century Wrap: 02: 1910s: Why Didn't Suffragettes Win the Vote? | History File

This programme investigates the Suffragette movement.

Episode 2 | Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. During Victoria's reign extraordinary women gradually changed ...

07: Women's Liberation | 1900s House

The arrival of the maid has given Joyce the freedom to investigate the history of the suffragette movement. But the more she learns abou...

04: Christabel Pankhurst | Shoulder to Shoulder

Black Friday - 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the p...

05: Outrage | Shoulder to Shoulder

The campaign grows. Suffragettes destroy property, and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.

06: Sylvia Pankhurst | Shoulder to Shoulder

1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.

01: The Pankhurts | Shoulder to Shoulder

1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which...

Artefact: Nellie Dean's Letter | Michael Wood's Story of England

Michael Wood learns about Suffragette Nellie Taylor and her experiences during a London window-smashing camp...