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How the Victorians Built Britain

2025

This series travels the length and breadth of Britain to find out how the Victorians built Britain. It uncovers the incredible and surprising stories behind iconic landmarks; discovers the hidden heroes behind the epic constructions; and finds out how the incredible advances made by the Victorians forged the world we live in today.

8.0

Spying on the Royals

2025

This 2-part documentary series reveals the truth about King Edward VIII's affair with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and the espionage operation that accompanied the investigation.

7.1

Time Team

2025

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.

10.0

Mary Berry's Country House Secrets

2025

Mary Berry discovers the rich history of Great Britain's greatest stately homes through the prism of food.

10.0

Thatcher: The Downing Street Years

2025

A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

6.7

Lucy Worsley Investigates

2025

Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history. She uncovers forgotten witnesses, re-examines old evidence and follows new clues.

7.0

The BBC at War

2025

An enthralling series exploring how the BBC fought not only Hitler but also the British government to become the institution it is today.

0.0

Kings and Queens

2025

The twelve episodes of this BBC series cover a millennium of English monarchy and portray lives of twelve important English monarchs and how each of them impacted the history: William the Conqueror, Henry II, Edward I, Henry V , Richard III, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Charles II, George III, Victoria, and to the present Queen Elizabeth II. Each 23-minute episode is filmed on location, with historian Nigel Spivey providing the narration describing bloodshed, lust and political intrigue. Actors provide mute dramatization.

7.0

Talking Landscapes

2025

Aubrey Manning sets out on a journey to study the changing face of Britain's countryside

8.3

A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley

2025

Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.

7.0

Inside Hampton Court Palace

2025

On the edge of London stands Hampton Court, one of Britain's biggest palaces and most popular tourist spots, attracting almost a million visitors every year. Spanning 750 acres of grounds, it boasts 1,300 rooms and 23 courtyards...along with a host of secrets and historic stories. This two-part special provides an exclusive and intimate look at life inside the court today for the people keeping Henry VIII's world alive in the modern age, and also explores what life was like in the palace where the private world of the Tudors began.

0.0

Britain's Greatest Generation

2025

Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.

4.5

Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings

2025

Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection.

7.8

Britain's Most Historic Towns

2025

In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns and cities. In each programme Alice studies one key period in history by delving into the secrets of a historic town that encapsulates the era, providing an accurate impression of what life was really like at key moments in our turbulent past. At the climax of each programme, cutting-edge CGI reveals the entire historic town in all its former glory.

5.0

Digging for Britain

2025

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

9.0

Abroad Again in Britain

2025

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

0.0

Finest Hour

2025

Series tracing the events of 1940, when Britain faced alone the threat of invasion and defeat by Hitler's forces.

8.0

The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

2025

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.

8.0

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

2025

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.

9.0

Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets

2025

In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.

Genre	Documentary
Languages	en
Production Ccountries	United Kingdom

If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

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