Sex And Sensibility

The popularity of costume dramas showing Regency England as a hotbed of sexual tension, salacious gossip and extra-marital affairs continues to captivate audiences' imagination around the world. Sex and Sensibility lifts the lid on the racy real sex lives of Georgian and Regency gentry. Combining the locations of Netflix's Bridgerton with contributions from leading historians and drama reconstruction, we discover the sex, drugs and Georgian rock and roll were very much a part of Regency high society.

World's Biggest Beasts

Before man ruled the world, Earth was a land of giants. Count down the biggest beasts of their kind to ever roam the planet in this eye-opening special, and uncover the secret lives of these supersized species. Birds with plane-length wingspans, dinosaurs rivalling a Boeing 737; this stunning CGI special goes in search of the truth behind these monsters, counting down the ten largest and most extraordinary finds.From handling the recently unearthed bones of a dinosaur far larger than previously known, to analysing the flight technique of a giant seven-metre bird – uncover the unique adaptations that allowed each animal to thrive.

The Black West: A Counter History Of The Wild West

It is one of the West’s most powerful myths. The story of how the American West was won - by great heroes and white men. BLACK WEST tells the flip side of that myth. In 1875, one of four American cowboys was Black—Black sheriffs, Black trappers and Black soldiers. Some were adopted by Native American tribes, while others became slaves. These anonymous heroes were the inspiration for many great Westerns; yet Hollywood has erased them from the silver screen. Pieced together from archives, carefully crafted re-enactments and first-hand historical accounts, BLACK WEST restores these invisible heroes to their rightful place in history.

Bathsheba: Search For Evil

BATHSHEBA follows in the footsteps of the hit film series, The Conjuring, and visits the home of the Perron family to find the truth about the haunting, and separate fiction from fact. Who was Bathsheba Sherman, and why is she terrorizing this innocent family? BATHSHEBA uses interviews, archive footage and re-enactments to investigate.

The Dambusters

The story begins in Spring 1943 as squadron leader Guy Gibson assembles and trains a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb. If successful they’ll deal a hammer blow to the Nazi war effort. Pushing human skill and engineering capabilities to limit, this is the story of the single mission that can change the course of the Second World War. Over the course of three episodes, historian Dan Snow relives the nail-biting countdown to the most daring and ingenious bombing raids in history.

Curse Of The Ancients

From wars to earthquakes and floods to famines – these are the events that have helped shape our modern world. In each episode, Professor Alice Roberts takes viewers on a journey across Europe and North Africa to discover epic sites and landmarks - cities abandoned, battlefields long forgotten and civilisations toppled and lost to the mists of time. To our ancient ancestors, suffering these catastrophic events, it must have seemed they were cursed, but science is now exploding those myths and re-writing history.

The History Of Britain

Tony Robinson takes a fresh and humorous look at British history ‘from the bottom up’. Instead of the usual stories of the powerful, rich and famous, this is history through the eyes of the common people. Each episode covers a momentous period in British history: the first series covers the Tudors, Georgians, Victorians and World War II, while the second series looks at Roman Britain, the Middle Ages, the Edwardians and the 1950’s.

Ultimate Tutankhamun

Nearly a century after Howard Carter’s momentous discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Egyptologist Dr Chris Naunton returns to Carter’s vast excavation files. Hidden amongst thousands of notes he has uncovered clues that point to a mysterious burning of the Boy King’s mummy. But this mystery of the burnt mummy also provides a fresh new clue to the greatest enigma of Ancient Egypt – what caused the young pharaoh’s death. Combined with new, historical evidence of Tutankhamun leading the charge in Egypt’s foreign wars what emerges is a new image of this young ruler – and a tragic death.

Emperor's Lost Harbour

In the heart of a metropolitan city of 15 million people, an archaeological sensation has been discovered: the ancient harbour of Theodosious, lost from the history books for over 1000 years. Using never-before-seen CGI to recreate the city, we piece together the story of the ancient harbour and the reasons for its sudden disappearance in the 13th century.

The Real Hunt For Red October

This two part docu-drama reveals, for the first time, the astonishing secret story behind the Russian submarine, Red October. The blockbuster movie The Hunt for Red October tells the story of a rogue Soviet nuclear submarine attempting to defect to the US while being hunted by both the American and Soviet Navies. Based on the best-selling novel by Tom Clancy, it reveals the technology, drama and character of an underwater battle. What few realise is that the book and film were inspired by a classified nuclear confrontation that some believe changed the course of world history.