04: Changing Lives | Timelines

04: Changing Lives | Timelines

History | BBC Two | 2008 | 1'59'15''

Two programmes for Key Stage 3 students which tell the story of the struggles for popular democracy in the United Kingdom and England's imperi...

04: The Kitchen | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

04: The Kitchen | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 58'55''

Lucy Worsley looks at the history of the kitchen by baking bread in a Tudor kitchen, doing a week's Victorian ...

03: The Bedroom | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

03: The Bedroom | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 59'04''

Lucy Worsley looks at the history of the British bedroom by spending the night in a Tudor farmhouse and experi...

02: The Bathroom | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

02: The Bathroom | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 58'52''

Lucy Worsley looks at the history of the bathroom, from medieval bath houses to London Bridge's communal loos...

01: The Living Room | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

01: The Living Room | If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

History | BBC Four | 2011 | 59'01''

Lucy Worsley looks at the history of the living room from a medieval great hall, through a Georgian drawin...

12: The Leningrad Sphinx | Comrades

12: The Leningrad Sphinx | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1986 | 44'19''

The last of the 12 Comrades is Dinara Asanova , one of Leningrad's top film directors. For the party bosses cinema is a tool of socialist...

11: Baltic Chic | Comrades

11: Baltic Chic | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1986 | 39'59''

Krista Kajandu is the chief designer at the Tallinn Fashion House in the Soviet Republic of Estonia. For most of the time Krista and her team have...

10: Master of Samarkand | Comrades

10: Master of Samarkand | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1986 | 38'54''

Just across the border from Afghanistan, 54-year-old Abdugaffar Khakkulov restores ancient Samarkand's mosques and minarets. By insisting ...

09: Sumgait Strikers | Comrades

09: Sumgait Strikers | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1986 | 39'47''

Ragim Magerramov is the trainer of the strikers at the Lenin Pipe Rolling Mill - on the pitch, that is, not the picket line. For despite the ...

08: Office on the Pacific | Comrades

08: Office on the Pacific | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1986 | 41'01''

Nakhodka lies at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 6,000 miles and seven time zones from Moscow. At 33, Tatyana Naumova is Town Cou...

07: Hunter and Son | Comrades

07: Hunter and Son | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 39'57''

Mikhail Kuzakov and his son Yuri live and work in the Taiga forest hunting the Siberian sable at temperatures down to minus 40 degrees C. The s...

06: Doctor in Moscow | Comrades

06: Doctor in Moscow | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 39'11''

Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fyodorov is a world-renowned eye surgeon and a member of the Soviet elite. Director of the Moscow Research Institute o...

05: October Harvest | Comrades

05: October Harvest | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 39'22''

Mariya Kulinich is 78; she has lived in the same peasant village through revolution, civil war, famine and Stalin's collectivisation programme...

04: The Trial of Tamara Russo | Comrades

04: The Trial of Tamara Russo | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 39'34''

Lyubov Bubulich and Tamara Russo do not mix in the same circles although they are of an age and live in the same small provincial to...

03: All That Jazz | Comrades

03: All That Jazz | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 43'20''

Sergei Kuryokhin is a jazz rock musician living in Leningrad. For 18 months the BBC asked for official permission to film Kuryokhin and were rep...

02: War and Peace | Comrades

02: War and Peace | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 44'57''

Like almost all Soviet 18-year-olds Valera Krylov must now do his national service - two years in the Red Army, 1,000 miles from home. The film ...

01: Educating Rita | Comrades

01: Educating Rita | Comrades

History | BBC Two | 1985 | 42'55''

Rita Tikhonova is 21; she lives in Moscow, sharing a small flat about a mile from the Kremlin. She spent last year training to be a teacher. Th...

04: Beaulieu | National Treasures

04: Beaulieu | National Treasures

Engineering and Manufacturing | BBC One | 2011 | 29'02''

Dan Snow and Sian Williams visit the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, where they get hands-on with some of the most luxurious and elegant...

04: Delivering the Kingdom | The River

04: Delivering the Kingdom | The River

Geography | BBC Two | 1999 | 48'08''

On the last leg of his voyage down the Thames, Patrick Wright reflects upon its associations with political matters since Civil War da...

03: From Henley to Eel Pie Island | The River

03: From Henley to Eel Pie Island | The River

Geography | BBC Two | 1999 | 48'38''

The third leg of Patrick Wright 's journey down the Thames takes him through a stretch of the river transformed by the advent i...

02: Machines in the Garden | The River

02: Machines in the Garden | The River

Geography | BBC Two | 1999 | 48'04''

In a journeyfrom the source of the Thames in the Cotswolds to the Goring Gap in Oxfordshire, Patrick Wright explores the conflict betw...

01: Estuary: In Search of an Afterlife | The River

01: Estuary: In Search of an Afterlife | The River

Geography | BBC Two | 1999 | 48'51''

Patrick Wright takes a four-part voyage down the 210-mile course of the River Thames, looking at it through the eyes of pe...

03: Britain in the Roaring 20s | Make-up: A Glamorous History

03: Britain in the Roaring 20s | Make-up: A Glamorous History

Hair and Beauty | BBC Two | 2021 | 59'02''

Lisa Eldridge takes us back to Britain in the 1920s. She explores how the look of the flappers reflected the ne...

02: Victorian Britain | Make-up: A Glamorous History

02: Victorian Britain | Make-up: A Glamorous History

Hair and Beauty | BBC Two | 2021 | 59'09''

Lisa Eldridge explores how the Victorians prized natural beauty above all else in an era when make-up was frowned upon, ...

01: Georgian Britain | Make-up: A Glamorous History

01: Georgian Britain | Make-up: A Glamorous History

Hair and Beauty | BBC Two | 2021 | 58'58''

Lisa Eldridge explores the peacocks of British history: the Georgians. This was a period of extreme ostentation, but the ...

Calf’s Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food

Calf’s Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food

History | BBC Four | 2012 | 57'58''

Stefan Gates discovers the cradle of contemporary English cuisine. The film argues that the current renaissance ...

Lucy Worsley’s Christmas Carol Odyssey

Lucy Worsley’s Christmas Carol Odyssey

History | BBC Four | 2019 | 58'58''

Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols. From pagan rituals to religious conflicts, Fr...

Mockery with Monocles: The Western Brothers Revealed

Mockery with Monocles: The Western Brothers Revealed

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2012 | 27'50''

Geoffrey Palmer celebrates the songs of Kenneth and George Western and reveals their place in British comedy.

02: The 1970s, 80s and 90s | Back in Time for Christmas

02: The 1970s, 80s and 90s | Back in Time for Christmas

History | BBC Two | 2015 | 58'21''

The Robshaws discover how the race for a Christmas number one single was born, meet an EastEnders star who reminisces...

01: The 1940s, 50s and 60s | Back in Time for Christmas

01: The 1940s, 50s and 60s | Back in Time for Christmas

History | BBC Two | 2015 | 58'50''

One family time-travels through six decades of festive nostalgia. A wartime Christmas has the Robshaws embracing the ...

04: Pleasure and Escape | Britain and the Sea

04: Pleasure and Escape | Britain and the Sea

History | BBC One | 2013 | 59'19''

David Dimbleby explores how the sea emerged as a source of pleasure, Punch and Judy and sand sculpture, before docking into Gre...

S06E22: The Passing of the Year | Omnibus

S06E22: The Passing of the Year | Omnibus

History | BBC One | 1973 | 48'10''

This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated in 1973 with folk song, dance and ritual. For 12 months, from M...

Y Lein: Streic Friction Dynamics

Y Lein: Streic Friction Dynamics

History | S4C | 2024 | 48'14''

Documentary about the Friction Dynamics factory strike, near Caernarfon.

Hillsborough

Hillsborough

History | BBC Two | 2016 | 2'02'19''

Documentary on the Hillsborough disaster. Witness interviews show the horror of the day and expose the failures of the police and press in the wake of the tragedy.

Our Northern Jacket Empire | We Are England

Our Northern Jacket Empire | We Are England

History | BBC One | 2022 | 28'58''

Waxed jackets have been handmade in a north east factory for over 100 years. We meet the workers keeping these traditional skills...

Mods and Rockers | Panorama

Mods and Rockers | Panorama

History | BBC One | 1964 | 13'01''

John Morgan interviews groups of mods and rockers about their lifestyles.

20th Century Wrap: 05: 1960s: The ‘Me’ Generation? | History File

20th Century Wrap: 05: 1960s: The ‘Me’ Generation? | History File

History | BBC Two | 1995 | 23'58''

Schools history programme looking at the 1960's.

06: 21st Century | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

06: 21st Century | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

History | BBC Two | 2020 | 58'45''

After 100 years running a corner shop in Sheffield, the Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure by exploring how...

05: 80s and 90s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

05: 80s and 90s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

History | BBC Two | 2020 | 58'58''

The Arderns go back in time to run a corner shop through the 80s and 90s. Selling everything from Ice Magic to lottery tic...

04: 1970s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

04: 1970s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

History | BBC Two | 2020 | 58'58''

The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey running a corner shop and enter the 70s. Comedian Sanjeev Kohli visits the fa...

03: 50s and 60s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

03: 50s and 60s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

History | BBC Two | 2020 | 58'55''

The Arderns continue their time-travelling adventure from postwar rationing to the boom years of the 60s and discover how ...

02: 20s, 30s and 40s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

02: 20s, 30s and 40s | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

History | BBC Two | 2020 | 59'04''

The Arderns continue their time-travelling journey in the 20s, 30s and 40s. From Izal loo roll to powdered eggs, they...

01: Victorian | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

01: Victorian | Back in Time for the Corner Shop

History | BBC Two | 2020 | 58'50''

The Arderns start their time-travelling adventure running a Victorian corner shop, discovering how life behind the counter r...

Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England | You’re Dead to Me

Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England | You’re Dead to Me

History | BBC Radio 4 | 2025 | 27'27''

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Sally Holloway and comedian Cariad Lloyd in the long 18th...

04: Only Connect | The Other Side

04: Only Connect | The Other Side

History | BBC Two | 1979 | 50'33''

When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights camp...

03: Thomas Cook and His Son | Great Britons (1990)

03: Thomas Cook and His Son | Great Britons (1990)

History | BBC Two | 1990 | 55'57''

John Pudney traces the life and times of Thomas and John Mason Cook, the inventors of the modern package holiday, visiting...

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

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

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2012 | 58'50''

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

03: Goodbye Great Britain 75-77 | The 70s

03: Goodbye Great Britain 75-77 | The 70s

History | BBC Two | 2012 | 58'59''

Dominic Sandbrook looks at sex discrimination laws, football hooliganism and industrial unrest.