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A group of survivors of the rage virus lives on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.

With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.

Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Paris, 1792: After France becomes a republic, aristocrats are guillotined. The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises.

BBC investigative documentary series noted for its new perspectives on historical events.

Series which uses archaeology to shed light on history.

Historian Bettany Hughes looks at the struggles between man and the environment on the British Isles since 6000 BCE. In collaboration with some of the country's top archaeologists and historians, here's the unofficial history of Britain.

Still Point transports the audience from the site of the humble wooden structures offering refuge along Pilgrims' Way in Northumberland, to contested sacred sites in Jerusalem, and the interior spaces of abandoned Syrian villages in the Golan Heights. The film evokes the tension that marks them as places of refuge and spiritual quest - and as materially contested sites. The shifting of allegiances - changing cultural and religious identities, the resulting layering over time, the visual clues left behind - are physically embodied in the locations Chan chose to film. Barriers and divisions are a recurring motif in Still Point, suggesting the contradictory tenets of organised religion - inclusivity and its often-inevitable corollary - exclusivity. In making Still Point, Suki Chan encountered segregation, the militarisation of sacred spaces and the conflation of utopia with dystopia.

A handsome young man, a coquettish student teacher, nothing in common between them - except that both were murdered and left with their bodies meticulously posed.

Historian Bettany Hughes studies everyday life from 410 to 1066AD as Britain was invaded by armies from Scandinavia and Northern Europe.