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Victorian Britain on Film offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film. Most of these films have been transformed by colourising them for the first time. They offer a rare portrait of a powerful and prosperous nation - and Empire - on the cusp of great change.
Agatha Christie's England explores the real-life magical places which inspired her stories, from the sleepy seaside chocolate box villages she lived in as a child to the luxury hotels and trains she visited as an adult.
Baltic forests. This is where, in the 20th century, a drama unfolded behind closed doors: the resistance of a handful of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian partisans against the Soviet Union's stranglehold on their territory at the end of WWII.
Madrid, 1944. European fascists arrive in Madrid, and protected by the Franco regime, they weave a secret web known as ratlines in order to escape the Allied forces.
Paul Murton experiences island life. He crosses the great natural harbour of Scapa Flow and heads to Stronsay. Part 5 of 6.