Exploring how, over the centuries, iconic queens wielded true power and influence, not simply through their accession to the throne, but through their strength of character, intelligence and charm.

The year 1492 marked the start of nearly a century of brutal Spanish conquest of the Americas and the beginning of ‘The Age of the Conquistadors’.

In a shocking and emotional expose, Nadifa Mohamed reveals how African people were trafficked to Western countries for entertainment – and experimentation.

Geoff Hurst's life is about so much more than scoring the only hat trick in a World Cup Final.

An investigation into an art heist like no other.

Filmmaker Barri Cohen leads part detective story, part social history in Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children as she uncovers the truth about Alfie and Louis, her two long-dead half-brothers.

The investigation into the John Wayne Glover murders – ‘The Granny Killer’.

The First Inventors investigates the ingenuity, complex knowledge systems and scientific discoveries of Australia’s First People, to reveal how the world’s oldest living culture has thrived in Australia for at least 65,000 years.

A feature-length documentary about the legendary French volcanologists, Maurice and Katia Krafft. A film by Werner Herzog.

Ross Kemp dives deeper and travels further than before to uncover shipwrecks of major historical significance.

In one remarkable sixty-year period, unforgettable children’s literature was created in Britain. Wonderland is a four-part feature documentary series which combines biography, literary extracts, and quotation, together with extracts from the many films made of the work of these wonderful authors.

Could Hitler Have Been Stopped? The Politics of Appeasement is a strikingly topical new two part documentary on the Second World War, featuring seven of the world’s leading historians.

Tells the incredible story of how one of the most iconic aircraft in history was created.

A renovation series with a twist; revealing multi-million-euro historical building restoration projects across Ireland.

Dispel the myths, meet the legends and witness the rise and fall of the greatest warriors in history…

Broadcaster and writer Victoria Coren Mitchell follows the incredible journey of three royal items as they are rehoused, restored and revived.

In 1980, two years before the war that made the islands famous, a young Royal Marine called Alan Addis walked out of a bar in the Falkland Islands and vanished into thin air.

The true story of the mission to assassinate the world’s most dangerous man.

Told through the lens of the bumbling generals and paranoid Fuhrer who had hit the big time by tragic accident.

Exposing the myriad rumours, theories and disputed historical accounts of Adolf Hitler’s sexual psychology.

Martin Scorsese tells the story of a long-forgotten event that forever changed the cultural landscape of New York.

No one can fault the Queen’s commitment to duty. Her sister Margaret, however, is seen as the royal rebel, whose partying lifestyle caused embarrassment and scandal.

796 children buried in a septic tank in Ireland. Thousands of babies trafficked to the USA. What really happened to the children whose mothers had to give them up to Irish nuns?