Explores the period from the birth of the Chinese republic in 1911 to the civil war, bloody Japanese occupation, the coming to power of Mao and the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, up to the present day.
The Human Code: Step foot on the roller-coaster ride that is cracking humanity's most complex and important code - the Human Genome. Season finale.
The Code That Won the Great War: Revealing the encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour. Can a team of geniuses decode the message in time?
Professor Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's secret weapon in Britain: their cavalry.
Alice discovers the well-preserved writing tablets, swords and domestic items left by Romans at Vindolanda during a time of British rebellion.
The Prospector's Secret: Clues revealed in Katzie First Nation history lead the team north. Kru discovers 100-year-old court documents that shed light on Slumach himself.
The Search For Volcanic Brown: Volcanic Brown is the most credible link to gold in the upper pit. Dig into the prospector's story, why he went missing and what he may have found.
West: Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit sites in the west of Britain, including one uncovering the rituals of Stonehenge.
Archaeology from the north of Britain neolithic Orkney a Roman altar wild horses at Flixton feasting hall Pictish treasure.
The Cold War Code: A look at America's Cold War codebreakers charged with unravelling a seemingly uncrackable Soviet code and the uncovering of the Manhattan Project.
The Killer Code: Uncover some of the world's most renowned encryptions, revealing how they were decoded, the minds who cracked them and the secrets they masked.
Professor Alice Roberts explores British history through the stories of individual towns. Alice examines Britain in wartime by looking at the coastal town of Dover.
Alice Roberts visits the shipyards that built the Titanic in Belfast, the UK's most Victorian city.
From medieval Britain to the Northwest Passage in the Arctic, uncover the origins of the curses surrounding the Stone of Destiny, Landseer's Man Proposes, God Disposes and more.
The Search For Volcanic Brown: Volcanic Brown is the most credible link to gold in the upper pit. Dig into the prospector's story, why he went missing and what he may have found.
In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.
In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.
A region in the North Atlantic Ocean defined by points in Bermuda. Reports of unexplained occurrences, vanishings of ships and planes, in the region date to the mid-19th century. Theories of supernatural causes for these disappearances abound.
Chichen Itza was built in 525 A.C. The main structure “Kukulkan” is honour to Quetzalcóatl, the god of cultivation and land. Archaeologists travel to Yucatan to explain how the Mayans built those, how they lived, their predictions and intelligence.
A look at the biggest collection of Roman writing tablets in Britain, giving insight into what Roman London was really like.