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Martin Luther King Jr | Icons

Martin Luther King Jr was arguably the most influential figure of the civil rights movement, King masterminded a campaign which fought not only...

Civil Rights, USA | Witness

The programme uses footage from the BBC archives to explore the USA Civil Rights issues of the 1950s and 60s. Includes interviews with Malcolm X ...

KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy

Documentary investigating the Ku Klux Klan. Film-maker Dan Murdoch witnesses first-hand their secretive rituals and hears why their member...

Martin Luther King: American Prophet

Since his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King has become known as a champion of freedom. Oona King goes on a journey through the D...

George Floyd: A Killing That Shook the World | Panorama

Thousands of people have joined marches against racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Clive Myrie ...

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, speaking to the people who organis...

S11E03: Rosa | Doctor Who

The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America. As they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wo...

Segregation and violence | Face to Face

Martin Luther King speaks of his experiences of segregation and violence as a child.

Rosa Parks | Face to Face

Martin Luther King tells the story of Rosa Parks, the ''Bus Boycott'' and how this lead to his rise a civil rights leader.

Green Book (2018)

New York, 1962: Italian-American nightclub bouncer Tony Lip gets taken on as a driver for acclaimed African American pianist Donald Shirley on a tour of th...

04: Betty | Mrs. America

The Supreme Court makes an historic judgement legalising abortion in the United States, and the Women's Caucus agrees not to confront Phyllis Schlaf...

02: Gloria | Mrs. America

Gloria Steinem launches the feminist magazine MS in New York.

Muhammad Ali | Icons

Muhammad Ali's talent and charisma secured the love of his fans, but his attitudes towards race, religion and America's role in the Vietnam War all chal...

Billie Jean King | Icons

Billie Jean King is tennis' greatest talents, and also a tireless campaigner for equality. She fought for prize-money parity, was instrumental in th...

Non-violence | Face to Face

Martin Luther King talks about the importance of non-violent protest in the civil rights movement.

Experience of living with Jim Crow | Rick Stein Tastes the Blues

Rick heres how some of his Blues heroes grew up under the Jim Crow laws and how they defined the genre itself.

Colour discrimination | Face to Face

Martin Luther King recalls his first instance of being discriminated for his race at the age of six.

04: More Angry Than Afraid | Promised Land

The story of four of the most tumultuous years in Chicago's racial history, from 1965 to 1968. Martin Luther Kingcame to Chicago a...

03: We Stand at the Crossroads | Promised Land

This third programme tells the story of black Chicago between the end of the war and the early sixties. With thousands of migr...

Living in the USA | Face to Face

Martin Luther King explains why he doesn't move to a less discriminatory country and why it is important that he fights for equality in the US.

04: The Line | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

A drama-documentary about how two corporate giants raced to link the east and west coasts of America by rail.

02: Great Plains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of...

Seven Journeys In The American West | Secondary Schools

The story of the American West through the words of seven eye-witnesses - settlers, gold diggers, ranchers, homestead...

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.

01: Custer's Last Stand | The Wild West

Drama-documentary exploring General Custer's motives when, on a blistering hot Sunday in June 1876, 366 men of his 7th Cavalry attack...

Cowboys and cattle | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets a third generation cowboy and learns about life as a rancher on the Great Plains, running cattle drives.

The Homestead Act | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray visits old sod-houses built during the Homestead Act. The scheme encouraged families to grow crops off the P...

The Oregon Trail | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains the route Pioneers would take through the Great Plains and how naturally this was dictated by a river.

02: Billy the Kid | The Wild West

Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by t...

S08E12: Roanoke | Horrible Histories

Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony.

02: CS Mackay-Bennett | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

David tells the story of CS Mackay-Bennett, a cable repair ship launched on the Clyde in 1884. She k...

09: Disaster at Roanoke | This Sceptred Isle: Empire

Christopher Lee's ground-breaking narrative history series telling the story of the growth of Britain's Empire: Disaster...

03: Deserts | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonora...

Scotland and the Klan

Documentary in which Neil Oliver explores the possible links between racism in America's Deep South and the Scottish settlers that first occupied it.

01: Mountains | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - ...

Stagecoaches | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray takes a ride on a refurbished stagecoach which, before the railroad, became the main transport choice for people ...

Blackfeet | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray meets the descendants of the Blackfeet Native American tribe. The plentiful bison were the lifeblood of the tribes a...

The Donner Party | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of Pioneers who chose some poor routes through the Sierra Nevada...

Pioneer routes | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray maps out the common routes of the Pioneers as they met and left the Rocky Mountains.

The Pioneers | How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

Ray explains what kind of people the Pioneers were and why they headed West to find a new way of life.

S01E10: The Assassination of JFK | Days That Shook the World

The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the assassination of its youngest leader, John F. Kenn...

Till (2022)

After black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for offending a white woman, his grieving mother goes public in her fight for justice. Activist org...

S01E03: The Assassination of MLK | Days That Shook the World

This program follows the day Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

03: Globalisation | World 2000

What is globalisation and how does it affect us?

KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy

Documentary investigating the Ku Klux Klan. Film-maker Dan Murdoch witnesses first-hand their secretive rituals and hears why their member...

Black Peoples of the Americas: 05: Civil Rights in the US | History File

Drama documentary covering the history of civil rights in the USA in the 50's and 60's. Today's stor...

George Floyd: A Killing That Shook the World | Panorama

Thousands of people have joined marches against racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Clive Myrie ...

Surviving 9/11

A deeply personal film that moves between accounts of the two-hour period when terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and hijacked Flight 93 and...

S01E00: Apollo 11 Moon Landing | Days That Shook the World

20/07/1969 - The day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

Trump's First 100 Days | Panorama

A Panorama special looking at the first 100 days of President Trump. Jeremy Paxman crosses the US for a wry and searching examination of th...

03: Martin Luther King | Secrets of Leadership

Martin Luther King is seen as an inspiration for peaceful protest campaigns. Andrew Roberts challenges this perception in a pr...

The Black American Fight for Freedom

Fifty years on from the promise of equality and the Civil Rights Act, this documentary reveals the moments where America had the chance ...

04: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.

02: The Road to Repeal | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

It took the rise of Al Capone and a crime wave that swept the nation to convince America that prohibition...

The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy

For forty years, conspiracy theories have raged over the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Now, 3D computer animation of the cri...

Stories of immigration to America | American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941

The experiences of people who immigrated to America in the early 20th century.

9/11: Inside the President's War Room

Twelve hours with the president on 9/11 - with direct testimony from President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and senior staff - as it cha...

S02E08: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijackin...

22: Star Wars: 1981-1988 | Cold War

Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...

The Cold War | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explains the post-war tensions between the US and Russia and the reasons why atomic bomb testing became...

02: The American Civil War | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley shows how the history of the American Civil War has been retold over time, in mov...

Origins of the Civil War | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explains the events and discrepancies that lead to the beginning of the American Civil War ...

The Klu Klux Klan | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy details the origins of the white supremacist group, the Klu Klux Klan, and how one film made by th...

03: Robert E Lee | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

During the American Civil War, Glasgow shipbuilders and captains made a fortune running the supplies of w...

Martin Luther King | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores Martin Luther King's influence on the civil rights act.

Emancipation Proclamation | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

While there was truth to Lincoln ''freeing the slaves'', some confederate states on the borders...

Share-cropping | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Upon the abolition of slavery, races were largely segregated. Former slaves had no money to buy land, so w...

02: Abraham Lincoln | Walden on Heroes

Brian Walden contends that the civil-war president did not, as is popularly believed, devote his life to a fight to abolish slavery. B...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Classic western adventure, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as legendary outlaws Butch and Kid.

Gone With the Wind | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy examines the troublesome themes within America's hugely successful civil war film, ''Gone With th...

Lincoln's racial views | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy finds out about Frederick Douglass, an emancipated former slave-turned politician who spoke ...

Liverpool and the American Civil War | A House Through Time

David Olusoga investigates Liverpool's connection with the American Civil War, through the story of a resident of...

01: The Roaring Twenties | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

Ed Asner narrates a documentary examining the effects of Prohibition in America in the 1920s and 30s. T...

American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941 | History File

A history of America, 1917-1941, through the eyes of a variety of characters from the era.

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.

08: 1929: Breadline | People's Century

The economic boom of the roaring twenties comes to a sudden halt in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression. In the years after a dem...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Icons

Paralysed from the waist down, FDR's bold social and economic reforms turned a country on the brink of catastrophe into a superpower, and h...

S03E02: Rule of the Gun | Days That Shook the World

Gunfight at the OK Corral in 1881 and the St Valentine Days Massacre in 1929.

The impact of the crash | 1929: The Great Crash

The immediate impact of the Wall Street Crash.

07: Hoover Dam | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Over one hundred people died when Frank Crowe tried to tame the Colorado River by building the Hoover Dam.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.

Episode 2 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

A look at 1930s America using rare and unseen footage and in colour for the first time.

Episode 1 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

Documentary showing 1920s America in colour for the first time.

03: Boom and Bust | Twentieth Century History

History programme for schools narrated by John Tidmarsh. Today's programme looks at the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United ...

S03E02: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | Days That Shook the World

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.

09: Crime and Prohibition | Time to Remember

Material from the 50s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story of the media circus that surrounded gangsters...

The Day of the Wall Street Crash | 1929: The Great Crash

The beginning of the Wall Street Crash on the 24th October 1929.

Episode 6 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

The story of America’s criminal past, seen in colour for the first time using rare archive.

S03E03: Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds | Days That Shook the World

How a 1938 radio production of ''The War of the Worlds'' caused panic in the United States.

07: 19207: Great Escape | People's Century

The cinema excites, inspires and influences people seeking escape from their usually dull lives. Hollywood booms in the 1920s, and...

The crash | 1929: The Great Crash

The attempts to prevent the crash as it was happening.

Episode 9 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the early 20th century, leisure and recreation transformed American lives. Newly wealthy, the American society filled fre...

The American Revolution: 01: The Break-Up | Lucy Worsley Investigates

Lucy Worsley investigates the turning points that led to America’s declaration of independence from Bri...

S03E05: Let Freedom Ring: The Boston Tea Party | Days That Shook the World

The story of the Boston Tea Party.

01: The Shot Heard Around the World | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

The war for independence is often regarded as a people's struggle for liberty in th...

Concord and the 2nd Amendment | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy examines the facts behind the mythologised tale of the Patriot militia who defeated th...

The American Revolution: 02: A Messy Divorce | Lucy Worsley Investigates

04: The World Turned Upside Down | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

By 1781, the British had enjoyed command of the sea and with it the ability to move th...

03: The War Moves South | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

The British open a new front in the southern colonies, winning a series of victories and findin...

02: American Crisis 1776 | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

As Washington is forced out of New York, his army begins to desert, until a daring raid across...

The Liberty Bell | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

The Liberty Bell's history is actually shrouded in fiction, and comes from a story by the most popular a...

Hamilton The Musical | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy speaks to a historian about why despite Hamilton's much lauded reception, it could be in danger...

French coalition | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

July 4th 1776 may have been ''independence day'', however battles continued where the Americans received...

The Declaration of Independence | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy introduces the Declaration, its compromises and the different drafts it went through...

The American Revolution | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy gives a short summary of the American Revolution which is generally accepted historically.

Paul Revere | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores the different versions of Paul Revere's iconic tale of riding into the night to warn the Patri...