The Century of the Self - Season 1 Episode 1 Happiness Machines

John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic...

A look at the military strategy of aerial bombardment and its effect on 20th century wars, and the future of warfare.

For centuries in western culture, opera has been the greatest show on earth. Historian Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand....

To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit...

New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them...

Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three...

A thought-provoking exploration of the spectacular rise and fall of Barney the Dinosaur’s furious backlash — and what it says about the...

In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran...

At the time of Queen Victoria’s birth in 1819, England was an agrarian society. Within a few short decades, this small island nation would be...

Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes...

Alain de Botton's psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded.

The Death of Yugoslavia is a BAFTA-award winning BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It...

Follows the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier.

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some...

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have...

Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent...

Dr. Samantha Hill is an earthquake research scientist at a noted university in Washington State. Her alternative theories and her take-charge...

A documentary series on the career of The Beatles.