The Great Smog: Winter of '52

Camden

2026

This music documentary reveals how some of the world's most iconic artists were shaped by this corner of London.

A Very Royal Crisis: Countdown to Abdication

2026

This is the true tale of the biggest scandal ever to engulf the British Royal Family – a forbidden love affair which had a devastating impact. This series recounts the story behind the ten days leading to Edward VIII abdicating his throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. It would change the royals, the press and British history forever.

The Century of Icons

2026

School Swap: UK to USA

2026

UK big-city diversity collides with small town America, as teens from London switch lives, and schools, with high school students in rural Arkansas

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

2026

A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Pineapple Dance Studios

2026

The biggest West End shows, the most famous pop acts, the world's most successful dance teachers and the most incredible cast of characters TV will ever see all pass through London's Pineapple Dance Studios.

Time Team

2026

Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.

The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

2026

Part documentary, part historical drama, this series follows the fortunes of the different members of the Boleyn family, ultimately made notorious for daughter Anne’s marriage to Henry VIII and execution.

Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler

2026

Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is without counting on the pugnacity of the Red Army and the Allied intervention in the West. Month after month, the noose tightens on the Nazi tyrant who refuses to admit defeat and precipitates his country in its fall.

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

2026

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the death of Queen Victoria to the end of the Second World War. It was a follow-up to his 2007 series Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain.

James Brown: Say It Loud

2026

Traces the incredible trajectory of Brown’s life and career from a 7th grade drop-out arrested and jailed at the age of 16 for breaking into a car in the Jim Crow-era South, to an entertainment legend whose groundbreaking talent and unique perspective catapulted him to become a cultural force.

The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson

2026

The actor and television presenter embarks upon a 200-mile journey from source to sea to discover what makes the Thames one of the greatest rivers in the world.

London

2026

London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.

The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

2026

Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at a dynamic decade. 1980s Britain changed in everything from politics and sport to fashion and popular culture.

Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane

2026

An exclusive five-star peek behind the doors of the luxury London hotel.