Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

In this production, we take a ride on the Strasburg Railroad and check out the White Mountain Central Railroad's Railfan Days. We start off at...

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrophic error that unleashed an era of...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse...

This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with...

The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of battle forever. Using diaries, letters, photographs...

A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse