Movies

Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile...

An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 1914 Christmas truce and gives him a new perspective...

This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Faberge name, from Imperial Russia until the present-day, spanning one hundred and fifty years of...

Experts examine the ruins and relics hidden under London. Among them, a Roman amphitheater, ditches for victims of the black plague, bomb shelters...

In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers...

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which...

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to...

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home...

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe...

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an absorbing examination of the events that followed. 1945: Germany is beaten...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is...

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from...

Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princes from the zenith of British imperial power to...

A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000...

The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King Henry VIII and the doomed fates of his six wives.