Bbc Movies

Shinty’s ancient origins date as far back as the 5th century, when it was believed to be the traditional battle game of the Highlands clans. By the 18...

Scottish comedy sensation Paul Black performs his feelgood stand-up show Nostalgia.

Alan Johnson MP (and former postman) tells the story of 500 years of the Royal Mail, and discovers how the humble British postal system changed the co...

Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of document...

The father of an RAF reservist killed in Basra in 2007 travels to the Iraqi city to discover the impact of the war and the subsequent occupation on or...

Muse were at Maida Vale for a Live Lounge Special and they performed half an hour set including ‘Dead Inside’, ‘Supermassive Black Hole’, ‘Mercy’ and...

Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and An...

In 2002, 20,000 members of the public cast their vote on what they saw as the locations everyone should visit at least once. The result is a definitiv...

Drama documentary for the BBC Schools series Scene looking at London's Metropolitan Police, their role and powers within society and how society, spec...

Cinderella is helped to the ball by her fairy godmother in The Royal Ballet's version of the classic fairy tale, using Sergei Prokofiev's music and Fr...

Writer Peter Shaffer talks about his plays, his life and the theatre. 'I think the live experience in the theatre is very important when you can see s...

Islamic State has declared war on the most important and romantic ancient architectural sites in the world. Jihadi fighters seek the total destruction...

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

Three "phantom ladies" on the pleasures and pains of transvestitism. Originally aired on the BBC1 program Real Lives.

An unmissable set from an American country rap megastar.

Zeinab Badawi delves into the history of Africa for a mini-series on BBC World News.

As part of the season of programmes commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust and the liberation of Auschwitz, Clive Mason visits the killin...

Billion Dollar Day is a documentary about currency trading created by the British Broadcasting Corporation on June, 4th 1985. The documentary focuses...

Angus Deayton trawls the archives to re-live the unusual outfits, never-to-be-repeated dance moves and strange songs that make the Eurovision Song Con...

Documentary telling the surprising and positive story of how, throughout much of history, the races of the world's empires mixed together unquestionin...