Railway enthusiast Michael Portillo leads a landmark journey through 200 years of rail.
The minute-by-minute story of the world鈥檚 deadliest oil platform disaster.
The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.
A look at the life and career of the iconic 1960s model Twiggy.
An international team of archaeologists explores megastructures in the Arabian desert.
Neil Oliver reveals how Robert Bruce used clan power to win Scotland's independence.
Mayuyama brings two important tea ceremony pieces back to life.
A 70th-anniversary television event telling the story of the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Japanese and US veterans reflect on the 'kamikaze' attacks of World War II.
Ken Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Tanfield in the north east is the world鈥檚 oldest railway, and in 2025, it turns 300.
A look at how Slobodan Milosevic seized absolute power in Serbia and unleashed nationalism
On 7 July 2005, four bombs explode. Is it a suicide attack? Will the bombers strike again?
Eighty years after the first atomic bomb used in war, Jordan Dunbar hears from survivors.
Spy-charged paranoia sees hostile superpowers heading to the brink of nuclear war.
Families of six Lockerbie bombing victims tell the story of their lost loved ones.
Jane Austen is 17 and beginning to write stories.
An orphaned baby triceratops must outwit a deadly T. rex. Can she survive?
Andrew Garfield goes on a quest worthy of a film plot to explore his Jewish roots.
The shocking tale of Britain鈥檚 nuclear tests, the human cost and allegations of cover-up.
The story of how Castro saved his revolution post-Cold War.
Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Julius Caesar.
Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.
Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome.
