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In a radical new approach to televised history a stellar cast of writers and historians, including Hilary Mantel, David Starkey, Philippa Gregory amongst others, battle out the story of Anne Boleyn’s last days, and give their own unique interpretations of her destruction.
With behind-the-scenes access to the Queen throughout her Diamond Jubilee year, this insider’s view of the modern monarchy lifts the lid on that Olympic James Bond moment, the secrets of a royal reception and what really happens when the Prime Minister sits down with the Sovereign. The Prince of Wal...
A fascinating four-part series exploring modern day high society through four historically prominent families – the Rothschilds, the Shaftesburys, the Marlboroughs of Blenheim and the March family of Goodwood.
Historically these four families were a ruling elite in the UK, enjoying power and pri...
A competition like no other: to find the nation’s best amateur theatre group and place them on the West End stage.
With the help of their mentors - Martin Shaw, Richard Wilson, Harriet Walter, Niamh Cusack, Roger Allam, Paterson Joseph, Jill Halfpenny and Julie Graham – the groups must give the p...
As one of the closest American elections of all time nears its climax Matt Frei, Channel 4's Washington Correspondent, takes a road trip through the midwest.
He explores the last four years of the Obama Presidency and asks what's become of the American Dream?
As three of Titian's greatest masterpieces are shown together for the first time at the National Gallery, Imagine... goes behind the scenes of a unique collaboration with the Royal Ballet.
Alan Yentob meets the all-star creative team who are transforming mythological paintings of the goddess...
In this two part series, Simon Schama argues that it is impossible to understand how Shakespeare came to belong ‘to all time,’ without understanding just how much he was of his time. In his histories and tragedies, Shakespeare explored questions we are all still asking ourselves today. What is this...
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...
