The Century of the Self

David Attenborough celebrates the amazing variety of the natural world in this epic documentary series, filmed over four years across 64 different...

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Kidnapped as children and conscripted into a brutal military training and augmentation program, the Spartans were designed to be the ultimate weapon...

Simon Sebag Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain's history.

Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of the greatest plays ever written. He...

Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been...

Five years after the Arab Spring, journalist Sinan Can investigates how the revolution has led from hope to chaos and struggle.

Louis Theroux looks at the extreme pressures placed on relationships by conditions such as autism and dementia, meeting both those diagnosed and the...

The two-part special “Manson Speaks: Inside the Mind of a Madman” presents a new theory on Manson’s motives that does not align...

The incredible story of the people who, despite persecution, grew Christianity from an obscure movement to one of the world's largest religions.

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.