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- It is Eighteenth Century London and Roxanne needs something from Daniel Clay. He turns up to fulfill his part of the contract and the film is the story of what happens.
- 1994– Not Rated7.8 (6)TV EpisodeAncients boats have been found all over Britain. Over 2 years a replica is made of the boat found 20 years ago. The replica is paddled around the breakwater. But what were these boats used for?
- 1994– 1hNot Rated7.6 (7)TV Episode
- Tony takes us back nearly 2,000 years to a time when Britain was under the rule of the Roman Empire - a time of Roman soldiers, gladiators and European slaves.
- A documentary which explores the naked truth behind the story of modern Olympics by following three hopeful athletes from Italy, Greece and Spain. In it they discover by competing in ancient Greek and English Olimpicks; why the famous torch race was never run at Olympia; how the ancients in fact actually competed; and the true story of the man who really started the modern Games.
- 1982– 52m6.2 (10)TV Episode
- Abstract images of figures moving about a room. Filmed from a video monitor in Super 8 during a rehearsal of a RADA production of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".
- 1994– Not Rated7.7 (11)TV EpisodeIt was always thought Boudica's tribe was wiped out after a major uprising against Roman rule in Britain. Recent discoveries have begun to tell a different story and they may not have been the barbaric warriors of the Romans described.
- In the Age of Reason, it was the rediscovery of the white columns and marbles of antiquity that made white the most virtuous of colours. For the flamboyant JJ Wickelmann and the British genius Josiah Wedgewood, white embodied all the Enlightenment values of justice, equality and reason.
- An aleatory film: each reel begins and ends with a fade from or to a different color and contains two scenes. The film reels are supplied to the projectionist with a die with each of the colors on a side. The projectionist rolls the die to determine the running order of the reels. The story is designed so that each ordering creates different implications to the film as a whole.
- The role of insects, spiders, and other seemingly innocuous creatures in demonstrated by noted forensic pathologists.
- Shadow of the Ripper.
- Aspects of a London day, including prostitutes on street corners, a striptease show and the 2i's Coffee Bar.
- A well furnished burial chamber is found at Prittlewell. A lyre is found, recreated and played. Gold crosses on the body suggest north Italian Christian. It is not until the end that the buried king is named.
- A Year in the Life of Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
- Comedian Rich Hall presents an alternative history of the Cold War, from nuclear near misses and fallout shelters to the CIA wiring a cat to spy on the Russian ambassador.
- This programme looks at the origins, development and running of the London Underground "Tube" system. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Tube, London Underground are organising for an old Metropolitan steam loco to haul trains along the first section of line to open, the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon, and at Farringdon they are preparing for a royal visit by Prince Charles and Camilla.
- 2013– 59m7.3 (19)TV Episode
- A young writer seeking inspiration in his poky bedsit takes a stray glance out of his window. On the street below an unkempt stranger is menacingly advancing towards an oblivious pretty girl.
- When the team's plan to protect Italian politician Anna Fabrizi from a lethal assassin goes horribly wrong, Ed is forced to go undercover and must make an impossible decision - kill Anna Fabrizi or die.
- London is both quintessentially English and thoroughly cosmopolitan - a city where the new and modern seem to mingle enthusiastically with the old and traditional.
- A ghostly 1920s British Museum tour guide named Agatha guides three children on a quest to help them defeat the evil Dark Lord, whose servants glide the darkened corridors and display rooms of the museum.
- Traveling from the nomadic worlds of the Eurasian Steppes to the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Rome, Dr. Amanda Foreman explores how early societies defined the roles of women and in so doing, Foreman asks some profound questions about the legacy that they left behind.
- By using Lord Elgin's actual letters written when he was Ambassador in Constantinople in 1802 the film analyses how and why he took the majority of the sculptures from the Parthenon Temple in Athens and shipped them back to England.
- Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a painting believed by some to be a work by Edgar Hilaire Degas. Will they bring its owner life-changing news?
- Series which uses archaeology to shed light on history.
- This German format is not a series properly speaking, as it has no permanent cast or script continuity, but presents each time a 45 minutes documentary, usually in part presented as a docudrama (not faction, as close to scientific knowledge as possible, but visually attractive), elaborating a specific historical theme, widely varied, often exotic in the sense of a far time (as far back as prehistoric times) and/or place (around the globe), although some episodes fit together well, chronologically or thematically, but always fit to be watched separately. Usually authentic locations are used, as well as scenes from and/or interviews about the scientific research it is based upon.
- 1969–19711h7.6 (30)TV EpisodeThe remains of a Blitz victim found while clearing a site reveal the man was murdered first. Strange and his cohorts try to solve the nearly thirty years old case, but unexpected official resistance complicates things.
- Dead Room is the dark and twistedly violent story of the various occupants of innocuously numbered Room No. 2. An otherwise ordinary flat in London, owned by its lively but untrustworthy Nigerian Landlord, No. 2 is a room that was born bad. It attracts the wrong people, and something weird always happens there. A young and sensitive writer goaded beyond endurance by an old enemy, an actress who is the victim of a crazed, bomb-making Stalker, a late night seance which goes gruesomely wrong, and a dangerously insane assassin on a gleeful killing spree. Four examples of just how macabre and downright odd Room No. 2's history is.
- Frank Skinner made his television debut in 1988. After five minutes of stand-up which had the studio audience in fits, the station received 131 calls from outraged viewers including a cabinet minister and the head of a major airline. Frank never looked back. Here he is, live and uncensored, performing the act that won him the 1991 Perrier Award for Comedy.
- A host of great comic talents, on stage and in sketches, gather together at London's O2 Arena to play to an audience of 16,000 in aid of the charity Great Ormond Street Hospital.
- Marking 100 years since the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, Richard E Grant explores the life of Agatha Christie, and the events that inspired the novels.
- To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don't know it, she is a very successful novelist.
- Pam Ann, A-List Hostess to the stars touches down for one night only with a sell out show at London's Bloomsbury Theatre.
- Promised Land of Heavy Metal is a documentary about Finland, the only country where heavy metal has become mainstream. Starring Alice Cooper, Mr Lordi, and Ville Valo.
- A feature length documentary taking a look at the explosion of movies that became available on VHS in the U.K. Taken from the perspective of those who tried to unearth that elusive movie at all costs known as psychotronic cinema.
- The Vikings were an ambitious, daring and frightening people who left an indelible mark on the British psyche. Yet archaeology has revealed very little about their time in Britain and even less about what happened to them afterwards. Archaeologist Julian Richards finds new evidence about what really happened during the dramatic period when Vikings roamed the seas around Britain. And in a ground-breaking genetics research project designed specially for the BBC series, internationally renowned geneticist, Professor David Goldstein, sets out to answer some of the most intriguing questions about the Vikings. Samples taken from around 2,000 people in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe have been processed and the results are revealed during the series.
- Arthur takes possession of a BMW imported from Germany but his car lot is raided and the car proved to be part of a drug importation racket. Whilst Arthur is interrogated by Inspector Klingmann Terry sets out to locate the delivery driver, leading to a punch-up on a bus.
- 'Punslinger' Tim Vine, holder of the Guinness World Record for telling the most jokes in one hour (499!), delivers his rapid-fire one-liners to an eager audience at London's Bloomsbury Theatre in 2008.
- Two Dawns of European Civilization expounded from the Classical Greco-Roman Worlds unto the aftermath of Germanic Invasions of Early Middle Ages (500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.) by focusing on the Arts, not the standard History of Works and Words.
- Tormented by recent tragedies Robert loses control of his transformations. Bulstrode reveals he has Ravi and enlists Robert to track down Spring-Heeled Jack.
- The Videos 86>98 is a music video compilation by Depeche Mode, featuring almost two dozen music videos.
- "Lark Pies to Cranchesterford" is a sunny costume spoof in which Victorian teenager Araminty Finch (Gina Bramhill) leaves her humble hamlet to work in the Post and Potato Office in the bustling town of Cranchesterford, where the local postmistress finds a love rival for the squire in a very camp postman. Also featured are a parody documentary in which soap actress Bo Beaumont (Dame Julie Walters), creator of the iconic Boadicea Overall in "Acorn Antics," tries to revive her flagging career by auditioning for reality shows, though it becomes apparent she has no talent; and coverage of the mid-life Olympics where medals are awarded for shopping and assembling flat-pack furniture. The finale sees Victoria perform her famous Ballad of Freda and Eric, accompanied by dozens of tap-dancing Freda and Eric look-alikes.