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War-torn Bosnia in 1992. The city of Sarajevo is besieged and burning. Great art treasures are lost in the flames and only one library remains.
Amid bullets and bombs, a group of book-lovers risk their lives to rescue 10,067 irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts.
At stake is a nation’s history.
Usi...
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.
Dr Ramirez uses her in depth expert knowledge to explore the extraordinary art and...
The definitive account of the 'wiki-saga', featuring the first major television interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The film unites all the major protagonists for the first time, including Assange's erstwhile partner Daniel Domscheit Berg, and the editorial teams at the...
Historian Dan Cruickshank is invited through the closed doors of six of Britain’s greatest private houses in an illuminating and surprising journey through our architectural history.
These fascinating buildings remain private homes and closed to the public, but their owners have
allowed Dan Crui...
On the 12th January 2010, Haiti was hit by a terrible earthquake. Hundreds of thousands were killed or wounded; thousands of buildings crushed; 90% of the capital, Port au Prince, was wiped out. Three weeks post quake and Irish telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien decides to fund a beacon rebuilding...
A landmark arts series in which David Starkey - Power and Personality; Gus Casely-Hayford - Art for the People; Sir Roy Strong - Visions of England, Howard Jacobson - Flesh; Jon Snow - War and Janet Street-Porter - Modern Times; present six passionate polemics on how British art made us who we are...
Comedian and author, Alan Davies, revisits his teenage years for a refreshingly original evaluation of the decade that made modern Britain: the 1980s. Alan Davies grew up in the 1980s, an era when it seemed everything – music, politics, even the bedroom – was being turned into a battlefield. Packed...
Anne Lister, the young heiress to the 400 acre Shibden Hall Estate, is in love with York doctor’s daughter, the beautiful Mariana Belcombe. Their passion for each other is all too obvious to their female friends but utterly hidden from society at large. But society’s rules cannot be ignored and Ma...
Simon Schama marks the first anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration by exploring what lessons might be drawn from American history in tackling the war in Afghanistan (The Price of Freedom) and the American economy (The End of the Dream?).
An observational documentary series made over four years, following four stories of properties whose conservation falls under the guardianship of English Heritage and its controversial chief executive, Simon Thurley.
As Britain braces itself for the severest cuts in public spending in more than 60 years, Dispatches examines the response of the trade unions and what their threats of potential mass industrial action mean for the country.
Representing the interests of millions of British workers, trade unions ar...
With exceptional access, Patrick Forbes’ observational documentary series, made over three years, tracks in forensic detail the investigation of three serious crimes, by the Hampshire police force: Murder, Rape and Arson.
An wry and witty observational documentary series about the world of wine, exploring the rarefied firm of Berry Bros, the fabled winemakers at Chateau Margaux and two very different South African vineyards.
Shot against the backdrop of the 2008 Presidential election, Simon Schama's critically acclaimed series travels through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake.
In this universally lauded and Emmy Award-winning polemic, Art critic Robert Hughes traces the way money has distorted the market for art, starting in 1962 when the Mona Lisa made its historic first and last appearance in America.
