Category: All Documentaries

1951 Korea
Join hosts Peter and Dan Snow for a look at the decisive conflicts of the 20th century. The intricacies of these crucial battlesstrategies, weapons,...

Episode 5 King Death
From the dawn of civilization to the 20th centuryA History of Britain re-animates familiar tales and illuminates overlooked aspects of England's past. Hosted by...

City Life
Join Monty Python's Terry Jones on a tour of the ingenuity of our ancestors. Take a humorous yet factual look at inventions we think...

Episode 1 The Assyrians Masters of War
Each half hour episode looks at a major fighting people or force and charts the reasons for their rise to dominance and subsequent fall....

Episode 20 The Sioux Warriors of the Plains
Each half hour episode looks at a major fighting people or force and charts the reasons for their rise to dominance and subsequent fall....

Episode 5 Prints of the Floating World
How did an Indian Buddhist shrine influence a Japanese pagoda? How are Italian pigs and cowry shells related to porcelain? These intriguing questions are...

Episode 7 Culloden The Jacobites’ Last Stand
Battlefield Britain is about famous battles in the history of Great Britain. From Boudicca's destructive rebellion against the Romans to the incredible feats of...

Episode 5 Bloody Beginnings
Documentary series about the brutalbloody and dangerous history of surgery looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages,...

Episode 1 Tower of London and Dover
Presented by Marc Morris an excitingeye opening tour around Britain exploring the age of the medieval castle. Covering a period of six hundred years...

Episode 3 Dark Ages
History of the Christian faith looking at its origins, development and turbulent past. High profile British personalities examine a religion that has particular resonance...