The search for missing British army Captain Nairac by a former enemy - nearly 50 years on.
David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I.
An international team of archaeologists explores megastructures in the Arabian desert.
A pioneering class of astronauts is recruited by NASA to fly aboard its new Space Shuttle.
Deciphering a mysterious cache of coded letters from Mary, Queen of Scots.
Documentary that re-examines the attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605.
When tensions between Protestants and Catholics explode, the British Army is deployed.
The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.
Jane Austen is 17 and beginning to write stories.
Railway enthusiast Michael Portillo leads a landmark journey through 200 years of rail.
Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.
Including an Anglo-Saxon sword, a Roman sarcophagus and an exquisite coin hoard.
Families of six Lockerbie bombing victims tell the story of their lost loved ones.
A revealing portrait of the life, character and inner struggles of Martin Luther King Jr.
A political mastermind uses the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.
Andrew Garfield goes on a quest worthy of a film plot to explore his Jewish roots.
The story of 15 men and women on the front line of the 1984 miners' strike.
Mayuyama brings two important tea ceremony pieces back to life.
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’s oldest railway, and in 2025, it turns 300.
A look at the life and career of the iconic 1960s model Twiggy.
The minute-by-minute story of the world’s deadliest oil platform disaster.
Japanese and US veterans reflect on the 'kamikaze' attacks of World War II.
A look at how Slobodan Milosevic seized absolute power in Serbia and unleashed nationalism
