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It has been linked to famines, epidemics, even the fall of empires. This program follows El Niño’s deadly path through human history and...

Storyville's Nick Fraser meets German-French documentary film maker and former actor, Marcel Ophüls.

A portrait of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah

This footage is all that remains of the programme that was first transmitted in 1960. Sgt George Brown demonstrates training exercises in a wooded...

This informational programme follows the British Army in Aden (Yemen) during the state of emergency in 1964. Aden is one of the last outposts of the...

Allegations of a significant elephant-poaching problem in Botswana have sparked a political row between the president and his predecessor. As...

A documentary on the devastating effect of the environmental menace just below our feet - the heat of the earth, and the eruption of this heat in the...

Motor race, fun-fair, sponsors' bonanza, death trap. Whatever it is, the 24-hour race at Le Mans has become a legend; for the driver, just to finish...

First transmitted in 1969, this film looks at a handful of the 280,000 railwaymen who work in Britain, especially the men who worked on the former...

30th January 2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. As the people of Derry city came together to commemorate the event, a bold new...

Brian Redhead reports from the 'Rocket 150' event held at Rainhill, Lancashire to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to...

Presenter Holly Hamilton tells the feelgood story of the Glentoran team who left Belfast on a European football adventure just before the First World...

Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where...

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment...

Medievalist Dr Stephen Baxter takes a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children. At a time when half the population was under 18 he...

Monteverdi in Mantua tells the story of the Duke of Mantua and his court composer Claudio Monteverdi during the turbulent times of the late Italian...

On March 5, 1986, Sean Sellers killed his mother and stepfather, Vonda and Lee Bellofatto, while they were asleep in the bedroom of their Oklahoma...

After the 2012 Olympics in London, track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy retired, having become the first British Olympian to win six gold medals. But having...