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Episode 10

With the help of an aid worker and son-in-law Stephen, Zora is smuggled out of Sarajevo.

• 14 mins
• 29 Mar 2024

2. Conflicts

John Hurt stars in John Fowles' tale of forbidden passions in Victorian Dorset.

• 60 mins
• 08 Jan 2006

5-9 November 1918

Epic drama series set in Great War Britain.

• 57 mins
• 09 Nov 2018

Series 3

2/2

Eleanor of Aquitaine, a thrilling tale of one of Europe's most extraordinary women

• 57 mins
• 02 Oct 2022

Episode 2

The discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb triggers a global media frenzy.

• 57 mins
• 29 Oct 2022

Introducing Nazis: The Road to Power

The story of how Hitler led a fringe sect to be the dominant force in German politics.

• 2 mins
• 24 Jan 2023

Episode 2

By David Ashton. A wagon of silver is stolen by the counterfeiters.

• 44 mins
• 15 Nov 2019

2. The Squire

Pursuing widowed Lady Lyndon, Redmond Barry becomes a titled country squire.

• 60 mins
• 12 Jan 2003

15. The White Hill

Brigid and Pryderi must defeat Roisin and fulfil King Bran's prophecy.

• 13 mins
• 01 Jul 2021

Home Front: A Fragile Peace

Home Front special, set on 10 November 1919, the eve of Britain's first Remembrance Day.

• 72 mins
• 10 Nov 2018

Series 4

Faith

Epic drama charting the emergence of modern multicultural Britain. By Carol Russell.

• 44 mins
• 06 Dec 2023

Series 7

Episode 10

Kate Phillips returns as Icelandic heroine Gudrun in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic

• 14 mins
• 12 Mar 2021

Bonus: U.Me The Complete Musical

The story of two young strangers who meet online and fall in love

• 20 mins
• 07 Mar 2024

Episode 5

Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made to London as a published author

• 15 mins
• 18 Mar 2016

Series 4

The Fires

The tomb of the Martyrs, the gallows, the aqueduct…

• 57 mins
• 13 Jul 2020

Robert Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th-century Japan.

• 57 mins
• 18 Aug 2018

Donald Trump: This Isn’t Happening

Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of the Republican Party.

• 44 mins
• 26 Oct 2019

Episode 137

The final episode in the series.

• 5 mins
• 28 Oct 2016