iPlayer History category featured programmes
Five years after the fire, Lucy Worsley revisits Notre-Dame ahead of its reopening.
Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.
Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Julius Caesar.
A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Tim and David look back at the Normans in Ireland. Was it really an English invasion?
Neil pieces together the evidence on the murder of his mother, Sandra Rivett.
The shocking tale of Britain鈥檚 nuclear tests, the human cost and allegations of cover-up.
Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome.
On 7 July 2005, four bombs explode. Is it a suicide attack? Will the bombers strike again?
The story of how Castro saved his revolution post-Cold War.
Divers search for Hitler鈥檚 U-boat fleet that lies off the north west coast of Ireland.
In AD80, the Colosseum opens. Emperor Titus plans 100 days of games to commemorate.
An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword, a Roman sarcophagus and an exquisite coin hoard.
At the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists strike gold in a lavish Pompeiian home.
Chris O'Donnell traces the ancestry of his late father, discovering a legacy of courage.
How did the Jack the Ripper case fuel today's true crime obsession?
A political mastermind uses the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.
Journalist Jordan Dunbar meets survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Reeling from World War One, residents feel the impact of a new political party, the Nazis.
A look at the Brighton bombing of 1984, with new testimony from many of those affected.
Adam Hart-Davis investigates the lavish lifestyles of the Romans.
First-hand account of the 1984 bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.
Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions that made the Normandy invasion possible.
How Princess Margaret combined the rebellious force of modernity and respect for tradition
