Augustus was born into a world of chaos and upheaval. The Republic was crumbling and his great uncle Julius Caesar was gaining both power and enemies. After Caesar’s assassination, Augustus, still just a teenager, launched an ambitious power grab which changed the entire Mediterranean world.

Jo...

In the third part of his series, conflict analyst Professor Michael Livingston is continuing his journey across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on the trail of some of Britain’s best known rebels.

In this episode Michael is heading across England to discover the incredible story of ...

How can heritage survive brutal conflict? Since 2011 Libya has seen upheaval and civil war - only now is there some stability. As well as terrible loss of life,  large swathes of buildings were damaged and destroyed in the fighting. When Dan Snow visited Benghazi to make our film about Cyrene, we...

On the Great Plains of North America, where the flatlands meet the Rocky Mountains and the buffalo once roamed, trailed by Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Sioux, there stood an oasis for westward migrants in search of new lives and fortunes…

It’s called Fort Laramie.

In this thought-provoking film, Don ...

Tracy Borman unravels the web of messages and secrets hidden in one of the most spectacular and mysterious Tudor paintings, Holbein’s the Ambassadors.

In 1533 England was in turmoil - Henry VIII had secretly married Anne Boleyn and had his marriage to Katherine of Aragon annulled.

This was the ...