Since the dawn of civilization, people in power have played with the truth, danced with deception and altered reality to...
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Experts illuminate moments in Winston Churchill's life that informed his decisions during the war, revealing how he...
Berlin 1945 looks back at the city's most fateful year through the eyes of those who experienced it: the German...
Journalist Afua Hirsch explores how African countries are throwing off their colonial pasts and becoming 21st-century...
Rob Bell reveals the secrets of the historic ships that shaped the world. He visits each of these monumental vessels as...
Monty Don travels across the Islamic world and beyond in search of Paradise Gardens, whose beauty and symbolic meaning...
Mary Beard investigates the real Julius Caesar, separating fact from fiction and revealing how his influence is still...
Historian Mary Beard answers the big questions that have fascinated people for centuries. How could a mediocre city in...
From the settlement of the Nile by a handful of nomads to the building of the pyramids and the burial of King Tut...
Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt - from the realities of...
Historian and author Helen Castor explores how people in the Middle Ages handled life's most fundamental moments of...
Colourized archival footage tells the story of the First World War, taking us to the battlefields, the strategy rooms...
Acclaimed British horticulturist Monty Don heads across the Channel to find out what makes French gardens, and the...
Egypt captivates us like few other ancient civilizations, but what was it like to live there? Egyptologist Joann...
In Medieval and Tudor England there was no question in peoples' minds – men ruled and women didn't. Historian Helen...
British historian Mary Beard takes a fresh look at ancient Rome, putting aside the stories of Emperors, armies, blood...
Kate Humble travels through India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, discovering how spices were once so coveted that a small...
World-famous gardener Monty Don takes us on a trip around Italy's most beautiful gardens.
Sixty years of Cuba's history and its place in the world is explored, with views from every side - the Cubans, the...
No matter when or where the conflict - ancient Egypt, medieval Sweden or contemporary Syria - truth is often the first casualty of war, while propaganda is the liar's greatest ally.
From Mozart to JFK, Q-Anon to COVID, conspiracies emerge from anywhere and at any time. Spreading by all means available, they have the potential for incredible danger and destruction.