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.

Shadow of Dumont

Since the loss of his mother, Trevor Cameron has never felt so detached from his Métis roots. As he examines his childhood hero, Gabriel Dumont, Trevor realizes that he knows very little about the buffalo hunter turned freedom fighter outside of the textbook history of the 1885 Métis uprising in Canada. Backed with decades of research and kin folklore, Trevor follows the nomadic path of his great-great-great-uncle across North America in his dusty 80s camper van to visit the things, places and times that defined Canada’s last rebel.

Should We Bomb Auschwitz?

In April 1944 two men miraculously escaped from Auschwitz and revealed to the world the shocking truth about the Holocaust. When the Allies heard their story they devised a chilling plan: to end the slaughter by bombing Auschwitz. But not everyone agreed the plan should go ahead. Meanwhile the killing machine ground on… and, in Budapest, 800,000 Jews were being held in an old brick factory awaiting transport to Auschwitz. By November, the Allies had decided to bomb the death camp. But by then, it was too late… For the first time on television, we will tell the whole of this incredible story – and ask the biggest moral question of our time: should the Allies have done the unthinkable and bombed Auschwitz?

Pride And Prostitution

From brothels for the working-classes to highly secretive high-society sex clubs, PRIDE AND PROSTITUTION follows the true account of Fanny Murray, the woman who rose from street vendor to darling of the Royal court by working her way up the sex ladder. With expert testimony from Regency sex historians and dramatic reconstruction following Fanny’s life; PRIDE AND PROSTITUTION throws candlelight into the shadows of the Georgian sex industry and discovers that it was anything but a period of high morals and sexual restraint.

The Remarkable Miss North

In the late 1800s, Marianne North traveled to the far corners of the world in search of exotic botanical life, paintbrush in hand. This documentary tells the life and adventures of this gifted Victorian trailblazer. Unbound by social convention she embarked on a project to paint the world’s plants, a legacy that is still as mesmerising today as it was when her gallery at Kew Garden was first revealed in 1882.

Hitler's Last Stand

On June 6th, 1944, the Allies finally landed troops in Normandy to open the western front. But after the surprise of the D-Day landings and Allied advances, Nazi loyalists dig in, determined to keep a merciless grip on the towns, strongholds and fortresses to defend the Third Reich. These are the stories of desperate battles waged on the edge of defeat, not just for victory but for survival.

Cold War Spies

COLD WAR SPIES pulls back the iron curtain on the Cold War, a conflict fought by spies, not soldiers. From miniature cameras and coded messages to stealth operations - and even poisoned umbrellas - spies operated in a world of constant risk and subterfuge. Featuring insights from former CIA, MI5, and KGB agents, each episode explores a theme: Double Agents, Most Wanted, Licence to Kill, Doomsday, Special Ops, and Sexpionage, revealing the thrilling and shadowy world of espionage at the height of the Cold War.

USS Indianapolis: The Last Chapter

This scientific detective story details the discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site three and a half miles below the Philippine Sea. The ship’s sinking in the final days of Second World War was the largest loss of life in US Naval history, and the harrowing survival story of 316 sailors drifting in failing life preservers is legendary. The programme combines never-before-seen archival footage and CGI with the moving accounts of the few remaining survivors, testimony of historians and spectacular footage of the well-preserved wreck.

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.

The Spy Who Stole The Atom Bomb

Newly declassified MI5 files reveal the story of the female spy who stole Britain’s atomic secrets and gave them to the Soviets. In January 1941, Ursula Kuczynski, a Jewish German refugee, arrives in Oxford with her children, on a British passport. She has no possessions, no accommodation and seemingly no connections in the area. She settles into the daily life of a housewife, where many of Britain’s governmental and military organisations have relocated in wartime. But this woman has a secret – she is a Soviet spy.