Decoded Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol

Dan Brown's latest blockbusterThe Lost Symbol has Professor Robert Langdon on a frantic quest to solve impossible riddles, trying to save the life of...

Gladiator Games The Roman Bloodsport

A look at the making of the Gladiator and the historical aspects presented within the film. Interviews with castcrew and historical professors about certain...

Michael Wood On Beowulf

Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great lovethe Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing...

Prince John The Windsors Tragic Secret

Born in 1905John was the youngest of George V's children. Diagnosed with epilepsy, he died in 1919 after a particularly severe seizure. Had he...

Scotland on Screen

Scottish movie star Alan Cumming returns to his homeland to take a tour of the locations of some classic Scottish movies. He celebrates some...

Star Wars Tech

Lightsabers and Death Starspirate spaceships and bio-mechanical bad guys, the stuff of fictional galaxies far, far away, right? Well, not so fast. Many of...

Study in Sherlock

An entertaining guide to the many screen and television incarnations of Sherlock Holmes....

The Harlot’s Handbook

Historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the story behind the 18th century's most infamous book Harris's Listsa catalogue describing the talents and attributes of London's prostitutes....

The Real DaVinci Code

The Real Da Vinci Code ought to be the last word among plentiful video debates over the validity of startling claims in Dan Brown's...

Rita Hayworth

American film actress Rita Hayworth is best known for her stunning explosive sexual charisma on screen in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Trained...