The Hurricane Heist

The Hurricane Heist 2018

5.68

Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.

2018

Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish 2014

8.80

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science series that looks at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates — the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree.

2014

Lost Empire of Persia

Lost Empire of Persia 2022

1

The sprawling capital of Persepolis and the site of the epic battle of Sparta at Thermopylae hold new discoveries waiting to be revealed; experts using cutting-edge forensic archaeology to reveal secrets behind these lost cities of ancient Persia.

2022

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time 2015

7.30

In November 1915, Einstein published his greatest work: General Relativity, the theory that transformed our understanding of nature's laws and the entire history of the cosmos. This documentary tells the story of Einstein's masterpiece, from the simple but powerful ideas at the heart of relativity to the revolution in cosmology still playing out in today's labs, revealing Einstein's brilliance as never before.

2015

Spider House

Spider House 2014

6.00

Professor Alice Roberts joins entomologist Tim Cockerill in a house filled with hundreds of spiders in a one-off documentary revealing the secret life of the spider in the home.

2014

Attack of the Zeppelins

Attack of the Zeppelins 2013

8.00

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppelin waged an 18-month terror campaign on the people of London.

2013

Lost Tombs of the Pyramids

Lost Tombs of the Pyramids 2020

6.60

In the shadow of the pyramids, an elite team of archaeologists embark on an extraordinary excavation. Could this secret site reveal startling new evidence about the great pharaohs who built these majestic monuments?

2020

Genoa Bridge Disaster

Genoa Bridge Disaster 2019

1

The story of some of the people on the Polcevera Bridge on the day of its collapse, investigating what caused the bridge to fail so catastrophically.

2019

Rebuilding Notre-Dame: The Next Chapter

Rebuilding Notre-Dame: The Next Chapter 2022

1

Taking you back inside the world-famous Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in France. It’s three years since the inferno devastated the vast timber and lead roof and the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece is now at a critical turning point. Work to rebuild the monument is being ramped up, with 200 scientists, historians, restorers and construction workers now on site. They’re racing to meet an ambitious deadline; to reopen Notre Dame to the public ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games to be held in Paris. 1,200 tons of scaffolding now fills the cathedral, giving the team unprecedented access to every inch of the structure. This not only allows them to restore Notre Dame, but also solve its architectural mysteries.

2022

Pride From Above

Pride From Above 2023

5.25

With exclusive access to some of the world’s biggest celebrations of LGBTQ+ culture, we deliver a new perspective on Pride - from the air. We’ll reveal the historic activism, fearless creativity and logistical ingenuity required to pull off these technicoloured festivals of hope.

2023

Hitler's Supergun

Hitler's Supergun 2015

5.50

Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun".

2015

Black Bud

Black Bud 2021

4.30

Sanya, a rebellious contemporary girl but a poet at heart, escapes her strict orthodox father's house in search of a new life.

2021

Building the Channel Tunnel

Building the Channel Tunnel 2019

1

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.

2019

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence 2017

8.00

Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without computers or complex machinery. This super-sized tomb has fascinated historians and archaeologists for centuries, but exactly how the ancient Egyptians finished the monument and fitted its two and a half million blocks in a quarter of a century has long remained an enigma. Today the secrets of the pyramid are finally being revealed thanks to a series of new findings. At the foot of the monument, archaeologists are uncovering the last surviving relic of the pharaoh Khufu, whose tomb it is: a huge ceremonial boat buried in flat-pack form for more than 4500 years. It's a clue that points to the important role that ships and water could have played in the pyramids' construction. This documentary follows investigations that reveal how strong the link between pyramids and boats is. It's a story of more than how Egypt built a pyramid: it's about how the pyramid helped build the modern world.

2017

The Wall: Climb for Gold

The Wall: Climb for Gold 2022

8.50

Four female climbers face the sporting challenge of a lifetime as they attempt to compete in the first ever Olympic climbing competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Wall: Climb for Gold follows four elite climbers, Janja Garnbret, Shauna Coxsey, Brooke Raboutou, and Miho Nonaka, over an extraordinary two years. They battle through Olympic qualifying events to earn their place at Tokyo, then face a gruelling season of competition and training that sees everything put on hold when the Covid-19 pandemic forces the Games to be postponed. As the young women confront their own mental and physical demons en-route to Tokyo, the film reveals an astonishing and inspiring insight into what it takes to be an Olympian and ultimately what it means to be human.

2022

Britain's Viking Graveyard

Britain's Viking Graveyard 2019

1

Archaeologists believe that a massive grave in a vicarage garden in Derbyshire may be the last resting place of a vast army of thousands of warriors that invaded Britain in the ninth century.

2019