Industrial Britain

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest...

Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-made peninsula extending four kilometres into the...

Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most controversial characters. With fresh filming and...

Chronicles the musical career of British post-punk art rockers Wire.

The environmental problems caused by fracking in America have been well publicized but what's less known are the gas industry's plans for expansion...

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951.

A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before...