Britain's Slave Trade

Exterminate All the Brutes

Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its

2021

Moderne Slavernij in Nederland

2018

Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure

Clive Myrie is on an epic Caribbean journey to reconnect with family, explore his own heritage and experience the rich mix of cultures that makes isla

2024

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive d

2019

Merseyside Detectives: The Murders of Ashley and Olivia

Liverpool, 2022 - Ashley Dale and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel are shot dead at home, victims of feuding gangs. Can the police bring the killers

2024

Decolonisation

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

2020

Unknown Amazon with Pedro Andrade

See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different group of people who live there in each episode.

2021

Liverpool Narcos

In the 1980s, Liverpool became the epicentre of a drugs boom that was to change Britain forever. With unprecedented access to some of the biggest play

2021

The Civil War

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

1990

Thomas Jefferson

The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this

1997

Ondergrondse Sporen

Martijn Blekendaal and Finbarr Wilbrink travel along the Underground Railroad, the underground network that helped thousands of enslaved people escape

2024

La route de la soif

2018

Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti

Joanna Lumley travels across two of the most enigmatic countries in the Caribbean Cuba and Haiti to explore and uncover the hidden gems that these cou

2020

Wild Caribbean

Nature programme exploring the rich variety of wildlife hidden in the diverse landscapes of the Caribbean islands.

2007

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery is the groundbreaking

1998

Slavery Routes

2018

Slavery and the Making of America

The history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstr

2005

The 1619 Project

In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions

2023

Sirene

2019

Lost U-Boats of WWII

During the second world war, the Nazis looted everything they could get their hands on, including an estimated 600 tons of gold, thousands of pieces o

2024