Brits Who Made The Modern World

David Jason's Great British Inventions

2025

Sir David Jason explores his favourite great British inventions and discovers how and why they were first thought up

La Grande-Bretagne Sauvage

2025

1000 Days of Fear: The Deadly Race at Los Alamos

2025

The triumphs and failures of the men and women who created the world's first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. This the story of the men and women who worked on a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War with First-hand accounts from the men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during the Second World War.

Secrets Of the World's Super Skyscrapers

2025

Massive Engineering Mistakes

2025

Abandoned Engineering

2025

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.

Inventions That Shook the World

2025

A series covering the 20th Century's notable inventions. Each episode covers a decade with great period video footage.

Submarines

2025

Submarines today are highly complex machines crammed with technology and weapons. As impressive as their construction is, as terrifying is their destructive power. Hardly any other weapon triggers as many emotions as the submarine. It strikes from ambush and can use nuclear missiles to drag the whole world into the abyss. Submarines originated from a completely non-military idea, namely to be able to view the world under water. But the interest in the military use of submarines soon prevailed.

Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream

2025

In a "nation of middle-class" the IIT dream involves clearing the world's toughest public exam for guaranteed lifelong success. Life is not an exam though. It's a hustle, one that nobody trains them for. The result? Eternal tumult.

Richard Hammond's Big

2025

Richard Hammond embarks on a global adventure to explore the world’s biggest structures and machines and discover how engineers build, maintain and use them.

The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

2025

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

Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention

2025

In the series, "Wallace will take a light hearted and humorous look at the real-life inventors, contraptions, gadgets and inventions, with the silent help of Gromit. The series aims to inspire a whole new generation of innovative minds by showing them real, but mind-boggling, machines and inventions from around the world that have influenced his illustrious inventing career" (the BBC press statement). Peter Sallis reprised his role as the voice of Wallace. The filmed inserts are mostly narrated by Ashley Jensen, with one in each episode presented in-vision by Jem Stansfield. John Sparkes also voices a portion in the unseen character of archivist Goronwy.

World's Most Epic

2025

The history and technology behind a fleet of remarkable machines from around the world.

Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies

2025

Series which celebrates an unlikely story of outstanding British aviation achievement at a time of national austerity, the breathtaking planes that were built and the remarkable men who flew them.

The Engineering That Built the World

2025

The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.