Episode 2
In the second episode of the series, Neil Brand looks at how the movie musical entered a second golden age in the aftermath of World War II. \n\nHe starts by examining one of th ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
Episode 07-06-2022
This documentary from Bafta-winning director Ben Anthony brings together multiple stories from the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy - the most devastating tower block fire in British ...
07-06-2022
BBC 1
Series 1: 2. Guilt-free Pleasures
What’s your favourite cinematic guilty pleasure? And why the guilt? Film critic Catherine Bray hosts a celebration of trashy films spanning Showgirls to Love Actually to C ...
03-12-2020
BBC 4
Episode 07-04-2019
In Atomos, bodies, movement, film, sound and light are atomised into miniature shards of intense sensation. Taking creative points of departure from atomised film, music and bio ...
07-04-2019
BBC 4
Episode 06-11-2017
Directed by acclaimed film-maker Margy Kinmonth, this bold and exciting feature documentary encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian avant-garde. ...
06-11-2017
BBC 4
Series 6: 4. The Horsemen Of Hadrian's Wall
In this special, Professor Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's secret weapon in Britain - their cavalry. These fearsome horsemen were the key to defend ...
22-10-2024
BBC 4
Episode 16-10-2024
Lying on the remote north west coast of England is one of the most secret places in the country - Sellafield, the most controversial nuclear facility in Britain. Now, Sellafield ...
16-10-2024
BBC 4
Episode 13-03-2022
Documentary exploring the history of five Hindu temples across Britain, tracing their stories and the spread of Hinduism in the UK. Featuring the elaborate rituals and the movin ...
13-03-2022
BBC 1
Episode 06-02-2020
Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's spectacular industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a passionate and thought-provoking journey that challenges o ...
06-02-2020
BBC 4
Episode 20-11-2022
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. Her original compositions and soaring ...
20-11-2022
BBC 4
Episode 16-10-2021
Paloma Faith has sold well over a million albums with number ones all over the world, headlined Glastonbury and sung to tens of thousands every week, but now she has taken on he ...
16-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 6: 2. East
Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the east of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by ...
08-10-2024
BBC 4
Series 6: 1. West
Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the west of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by ...
01-10-2024
BBC 4
Episode 16-07-2024
Historian, author and presenter David Olusoga looks back on how his 2015 documentary Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners helped shine a light on the extent of Britain's involvement ...
16-07-2024
BBC 4
Series 7: 4. Iron Age Revealed
Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain’s most spectacular grave. A team of archaeologists in East Yorkshire have uncovered the remains of only the third ...
15-07-2024
BBC 4
Series 8: 3. South
In this episode covering the south of Britain, we find out how a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8,000-year-old neolithic underwater settlement, go to a secret ...
01-07-2024
BBC 4
Series 9: Episode 4
Alice Roberts travels across the Midlands, looking at the best archaeology uncovered last year in the heart of England. \n\nIn a Digging for Britain exclusive, we join palaeonto ...
27-03-2024
BBC 4
Series 9: Episode 2
The south of England is the location for a rich and colourful selection of outstanding archaeology excavated in this episode.\n\nThe HS2 High Speed Rail line from London to Birm ...
21-03-2024
BBC 4
Series 16: Episode 2
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ, and they’re investigating how Britain is fighting back against the fraudsters.\n\nThe ...
03-10-2023
BBC 1
Series 1: 5. Cheese
Britain produces more varieties of cheese than France and is one of the biggest cheese producers in the world. In this episode our makers arrive in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire ...
21-07-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. Steel
In this episode, four craft-makers experience Sheffield's rapid transformation from a rural market town to an industrial powerhouse that built modern Britain known as 'Steel Cit ...
17-07-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 3. Cars
Presenters Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain’s imports and exports. As our trading relationships face their biggest change in ...
02-06-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 2. Seafood
This week Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood - a commodity the UK buys and sells in huge quantities. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores is la ...
01-06-2023
BBC 2
2023: Episode 1
From a brand new home, Rip Off Britain HQ in Salford, Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are joined by Britain’s best consumer experts to help solve the ...
24-05-2023
BBC 1
Episode 02-08-2022
Documentary about the last Maharajah of the Punjab, Duleep Singh, who was wrenched from his mother's arms as a child in the 1840s and put into the care of an official of the Bri ...
02-08-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 3
Coronavirus is spreading and the British public are told to stay away from pubs. Tom and the landlords he has been supporting face a moral dilemma. Do they keep trying to trade ...
23-12-2020
BBC 2
Episode 23-11-2020
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the supermarkets have become like the UK’s fourth emergency service. While most people have been staying safe in their homes, an ar ...
23-11-2020
BBC 2
Episode 03-11-2019
In 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb - codenamed Operation Grapple X. It was the culmination of an extraordinary scientific project, which against almost in ...
03-11-2019
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. The Batory
Dr Yasmin Khan explores an extraordinary collection of ships' passenger lists to trace the changing story of migration from the Indian subcontinent to Britain over three key dec ...
19-09-2018
BBC 2
Episode 31-10-2017
As Britain continues to spend less on the public sector, do we really know where our taxes are being spent?\n\nSpending on schools, hospitals and foreign aid are well debated. I ...
31-10-2017
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 4
At the Selfie Factory in London’s O2, the seven remaining MUAs enter the lucrative world of social media make-up, creating fun and impactful looks for the global video sha ...
08-03-2023
BBC 1
Episode 03-11-2022
Superfan David Whiteley celebrates the unsung British heroes behind the first film in the Star Wars’ franchise, 1977’s eponymously titled Star Wars. \n\nThe Star War ...
03-11-2022
BBC 4
Episode 25-02-2018
Nic Jones is a legend of British folk music. His 1980 record Penguin Eggs is regarded as a classic. In a poll by The Observer a few years ago, Penguin Eggs was rated number 79 o ...
25-02-2018
BBC 4
Episode 13-10-2023
Joan Armatrading is one the most influential singer-songwriters in Britain. A national icon, she is known for her singular vision, both as a writer and as a performer. She has p ...
13-10-2023
BBC 4
Episode 20-11-2024
This is the extraordinary story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme and its devastating legacy. The film reveals the full extent of the British government’ ...
20-11-2024
BBC 2
Episode 13-04-2024
Between 1989 and 1994, Nirvana introduced a new and exciting brand of rock music to the UK – one that changed the musical landscape and influenced a generation of British ...
13-04-2024
BBC 2
Episode 07-09-2023
The story of Manchester’s iconic Hacienda nightclub and music venue, 40 years after it opened, mixing insightful testimony from Peter Hook and Stephen Morris (members of N ...
07-09-2023
BBC 2
Series 5: Episode 8
The judges are joined by none other than the Kardashians' MUA Hrush Achemyan, master of masterclasses, and she has very high expectations for the finalists. \n \nIt’s the ...
13-08-2023
BBC 1
Episode 09-11-2022
In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. This film, a collaboration between BBC N ...
09-11-2022
BBC 4
1. Emergence
Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.\n\nRevealing as much about ourselves today as about our pa ...
14-03-2022
BBC 4
History Of Britain ">All episodes
Series 1: Episode 4
During the Blitz, over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on in ...
06-06-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 2
During the Blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain, and every bomb has its own story. This second episode explores the ramifications of a bomb that fell on 6th Avenue in the ...
19-05-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
During the Blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on ind ...
12-05-2021
BBC 2
Special
Britain is a nation of crafters, and now more than ever we are seeing an explosion in the number of evening classes and craft workshops up and down the country. People are disco ...
01-02-2021
BBC 4
Episode 21-12-2017
The Galaxy Britain Built celebrates the British contribution to the original Star Wars.\n\nPresenter and Star Wars fan David Whiteley uncovers some never-before-heard stories fr ...
21-12-2017
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 1
This series sees the Sharma family go back in time to discover what life was like for families who came from South Asia to settle in Britain from the 1950s onwards. The city of ...
07-03-2023
BBC 2
Episode 06-01-2022
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of ...
06-01-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 10. Alice's Film
Molly examines her shelf of special things at the back of Mack's stall. She chooses the piece of seaweed and remembers the day she got it... \n\nMolly keeps asking Alice questio ...
17-11-2024
CBeebies
Episode 14-01-2024
Wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin travels across the UK to track down and attempt to film his favourite birds – our birds of prey. \n\nHis journey takes him from the wilds o ...
14-01-2024
BBC 1
Episode 1
In this first episode of a three-part series, presenter and musician Neil Brand argues that the movie musical was the most important form of cinema from the advent of the age of ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4