iPlayer History category featured programmes
Back-to-back history shows bringing the past to life
Kirsty Wark explores the 1970s and early 1980s, an era of shops, pop, new towns and oil.
Bettany Hughes travels to India to investigate the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha.
The story of the Black African Kingdom of Kush.
How Paris went from site of the French Revolution to the world's first great modern city.
Drawing on the latest science, this documentary rewrites the story of Easter Island.
Ken Burns recounts the collision between two opposing views of the natural world.
A film that explores the human cost of atomic bombs used in wartime.
At Pompeii, in the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists excavate a new city block.
TV star Gemma Collins goes on an emotional journey in search of her family history.
Lucy Worsley investigates real-life murders of the first half of the 19th century.
Extraordinary fossil hunters unearth secrets from a time when dinosaurs walked the land.
Documentary about Gustave Eiffel's industrial feat in building France's famous landmark.
The story of 15 men and women on the front line of the 1984 miners' strike.
Alice Roberts follows a decade-long quest that reveals Stonehenge's oldest secret.
Immediately after WWII, the hunt is on to capture the highest-ranking Nazis.
Spy-charged paranoia sees hostile superpowers heading to the brink of nuclear war.
The Allies launch a high-stakes invasion of Nazi-occupied France to win the war.
Killer and spy: the Stakeknife inquiry leads Peter Taylor back to victims of the Troubles.
The Vasa, the majestic Swedish galleon, sank just after setting off on her maiden voyage.
Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome.
A shell gallery needs shoring up, and a priceless Rubens is saved from falling down.
Eighty years on, Rachel Burden hears the stories and memories of the UK's D-Day veterans.
Julius Caesar tears up the rulebook in his quest to become Rome’s greatest man.