Documentaries 192 available programmes
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Pappano's Essential Ring CycleSir Antonio Pappano tells the story of Wagner's opera cycle, The Ring of the Nibelungen.
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Nature's MicroworldsYellowstone
Steve Backshall looks for the answer to a puzzle involving wolves and beavers.
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Swansea MarketEpisode 2
Traders try to tempt customers to their stalls over the lucrative festive season.
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Regency Life: 3 Lives in 1 DayActress Charlotte Ritchie lifts the lid on a typical day for three Regency-era people.
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Britain on FilmCountry Living
How new technologies and production methods changed the face of agriculture in the 1960s.
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Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?How Britain is still defined by the battle between metaphorical Cavaliers and Roundheads.
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TimewatchDam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams
A fresh look at the legendary 1943 mission that, extraordinarily, almost never happened.
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Britain's Biggest HoardersSeries 1 - Episode 2
Jasmine helps 79-year-old engineer Jeff reclaim his home from the chaos of his hoard.
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The Tube: An Underground HistoryDocumentary revealing the tube's hidden history as it celebrates being 150 years old.
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Bradford: City of DreamsEpisode 2
Revealing how Bradford's long tradition as a magnet for economic migrants lives on today.
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Great British Railway JourneysSeries 4 - Goes to Ireland - Killarney to Cobh
Michael Portillo witnesses the rugged beauty of County Kerry and the rural Irish Midlands.
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Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed HistoryTudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men
Lucy Worsley explores the medical histories of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.
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Swansea: Back on the StreetsEpisode 2
Following those trying to find somewhere to live as a matter of urgency.
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SoillseSeries 4 - Sgìre a'Mheatailt/Heavy Metal
Looking at how the small town of Fengjiang, located south of Shanghai deal with recycling.
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BankersRisking It All
The inside story of how the banking industry deals with risk.
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Great Artists in Their Own WordsOut of the Darkness (1939-1966)
Documentary series unlocking the archives to tell the story of the birth of modern art.
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Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors RevisitedSacred Women of the Iron Age
Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two very different Iron Age women.
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Britain's Best DrivesNorth Yorkshire Moors
Richard Wilson takes a car journey from Scarborough to Whitby via the Yorkshire moors.
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Great British Railway JourneysSeries 4 - Exmouth to Newton Abbot
Michael Portillo takes to sea with the RNLI and visits a stormy coastal railway.
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Britain on FilmAnimal Magic
A look at 1960s short films documenting Britain's ambiguous relationships with animals.