iPlayer History category featured programmes
Neil Oliver retells the 17th-century conflict between royalist clans and parliamentarians.
Andrew Garfield goes on a quest worthy of a film plot to explore his Jewish roots.
Jane Austen is 17 and beginning to write stories.
How America's three great mountain ranges challenged the westward push of the pioneers.
On 7 July 2005, four bombs explode. Is it a suicide attack? Will the bombers strike again?
Families of six Lockerbie bombing victims tell the story of their lost loved ones.
Ken Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
The shocking tale of Britain鈥檚 nuclear tests, the human cost and allegations of cover-up.
Neil pieces together the evidence on the murder of his mother, Sandra Rivett.
An orphaned baby triceratops must outwit a deadly T. rex. Can she survive?
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.
Five years after the fire, Lucy Worsley revisits Notre-Dame ahead of its reopening.
In AD80, the Colosseum opens. Emperor Titus plans 100 days of games to commemorate.
Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome.
Tim and David look back at the Normans in Ireland. Was it really an English invasion?
Divers search for Hitler鈥檚 U-boat fleet that lies off the north west coast of Ireland.
An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword, a Roman sarcophagus and an exquisite coin hoard.
At the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists strike gold in a lavish Pompeiian home.
Chris O'Donnell traces the ancestry of his late father, discovering a legacy of courage.
How did the Jack the Ripper case fuel today's true crime obsession?
A political mastermind uses the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.
Journalist Jordan Dunbar meets survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
