iPlayer History category featured programmes
Back-to-back history shows bringing the past to life
The shocking tale of Britain鈥檚 nuclear tests, the human cost and allegations of cover-up.
A political mastermind uses the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.
In AD80, the Colosseum opens. Emperor Titus plans 100 days of games to commemorate.
Neil pieces together the evidence on the murder of his mother, Sandra Rivett.
A look at the Brighton bombing of 1984, with new testimony from many of those affected.
Reeling from World War One, residents feel the impact of a new political party, the Nazis.
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.
Adam Hart-Davis investigates the lavish lifestyles of the Romans.
First-hand account of the 1984 bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.
Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions that made the Normandy invasion possible.
Killer and spy: the Stakeknife inquiry leads Peter Taylor back to victims of the Troubles.
The story of 15 men and women on the front line of the 1984 miners' strike.
The story of how Castro saved his revolution post-Cold War.
Two friends with a passion for the past explore the abandoned metal mines of mid Wales.
True story of a secret film unmasking the IRA, which subsequently vanished for decades.
Michael Portillo embarks on a railway journey around the western coast of Wales.
When tensions between Protestants and Catholics explode, the British Army is deployed.
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.
Simon Schama looks at what forests have come to represent in the world of culture.
The story of the Black African Kingdom of Kush.
The Allies launch a high-stakes invasion of Nazi-occupied France to win the war.
