BBC
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1977
With a Fine Feeling for Steam
With a Fine Feeling for Steam1 1977 HD
This programme tells the story of the private steam railway company the Strathspey Railway, which was engineered and run by a group of rail...
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1960
Meet the Red Devils: Parachute Regiment
Meet the Red Devils: Parachute Regiment1 1960 HD
This footage is all that remains of the programme that was first transmitted in 1960. Sgt George Brown demonstrates training exercises in a wooded...
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1964
Jungle Green: Borneo
Jungle Green: Borneo1 1964 HD
This programme follows the lives of a group of British soldiers from 40 Commando Royal Marines, as they set up camp and patrol the North Borneo...
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1969
Makers of the Queen's Music
Makers of the Queen's Music1 1969 HD
First transmitted in 1969, this programme shows the life and career of military musicians. It follows young bandsmen recruiting as junior musicians...
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1987
Rivers of Fire
Rivers of Fire1 1987 HD
A documentary on the devastating effect of the environmental menace just below our feet - the heat of the earth, and the eruption of this heat in the...
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1974
The Bomb Disposal Men
The Bomb Disposal Men1 1974 HD
First transmitted in 1974, this is a documentary about bomb disposal teams, their training, and the problems of maintaining a family life in one of...
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1970
Beyond the Wall
Beyond the Wall1 1970 HD
Ignorant of democracy but hungry for the West they cannot visit, the 17 million East Germans are a force that could decide the fate of Russia's...
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1968
Death or Glory
Death or Glory1 1968 HD
First transmitted in 1968, this documentary shows life in the British Army of the Rhine as seen through the eyes of one of its regiments, the...
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1995
BBC 2: Campaign Idents
BBC 2: Campaign Idents1 1995 HD
The BBC '2' takes on a variety of roles; a pouncing creature, a pin in a bowling alley, a cuckoo clock, a spy, a sneeze, and roaming a corridor....
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1986
To Seem the Stranger
To Seem the Stranger1 1986 HD
Documentary profiling the life of poet and priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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1970
The White Handkerchief
The White Handkerchief1 1970 HD
30th January 2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. As the people of Derry city came together to commemorate the event, a bold new...
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1970
The Men Who Won't Stop Marching
The Men Who Won't Stop Marching1 1970 HD
In 2008 Alison Millar spent a year filming the marching bands of the Shankill Road. Amongst the men she follows is Jordan, an eleven-year old...
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1985
Personal View: Victoria Wood
Personal View: Victoria Wood1 1985 HD
Victoria Wood discusses her career and her writing, and gives a glimpse of life backstage on her comedy tour.
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1980
The Great Railway Cavalcade: Rocket 150 at Rainhill
The Great Railway Cavalcade: Rocket 150 at Rainhill1 1980 HD
Brian Redhead reports from the 'Rocket 150' event held at Rainhill, Lancashire to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway...
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2013
Baby Makers: The Fertility Clinic
Baby Makers: The Fertility Clinic1 2013 HD
Filmmaker Richard Macer spends three months in the Hewitt Fertility Centre in Liverpool, one of the largest fertility clinics in Britain. He meets...
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1963
Waiting For Work
Waiting For Work1 1963 HD
Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment...
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2011
Too Much, Too Young: Children of the Middle Ages
Too Much, Too Young: Children of the Middle Ages1 2011 HD
Medievalist Dr Stephen Baxter takes a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children. At a time when half the population was under 18 he...
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2000
No Experience Necessary
No Experience Necessary1 2000 HD
An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where,...
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2012
Food in England: The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley
Food in England: The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley1 2012 HD
As part of the Food, Glorious Food season, historian Lucy Worsley journeys across England and Wales in search of Dorothy Hartley, the long-forgotten...
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1996
The Making of a Boyband
The Making of a Boyband1 1996 HD
"Pre X Factor, pre-digital, pre-#MeToo, The Making of a Boyband lurks in a creepier, more cynical time. Broadcast on the BBC in 1996, the documentary...