British History Movies

Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), changing the shape of medieval Europe and the course...

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold...

In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and...

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

Using drama and documentary this film tells the remarkable story of Cromwell, one of the most important characters of British history, yet revered...

Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open their very own micropub and revitalise their high...

Mary Berry visits Harewood House in Yorkshire as it prepares for Christmas on a grand scale, and demonstrates how to make delicious recipes inspired...

Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Julius Caesar, and to challenge public perception, exploring Caesar's surprising legacy.

David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants...

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed...

Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of...

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed compendium of Johan's greatest on-screen...

INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the...

Considers how Anglo-Saxon England was built by many different peoples and cultures. Re-enacts important historical events. Shows authentic landmarks...

The story of the North Sea herring fleets from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Shetland.

Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London,...

What happens when man's reason is used as a weapon to slice through the accumulated detritus of ignorant and benighted ages and into the glorious new...