The cameras follow every step of the training course as two classes of new recruits begin their journey to become sailors at HMS Raleigh in Cornwall.

Historian Dan Snow charts the defining role the Royal Navy played in Britain's struggle for modernity - a grand tale of the twists and turns which...

Drama documentary about Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, who terrorised the British colonies in the Americas during the golden age of piracy.

Following HMS Ocean, Britain's biggest warship and the flagship of the Royal Navy, on a sensitive seven-month deployment, culminating in becoming the...

A major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976. About the life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It...

Documentary series exploring everyday life on board various ships in the Royal Navy fleet.

Devonport is the largest naval base in Western Europe, home to most of the surface fleet and the navy’s Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered...

Julia Bradbury and JJ Chalmers are given unprecedented access to the Royal Navy.

Built especially for the challenging conditions of Antarctica, HMS Endurance is the Royal Navy’s only ice patrol ship and its only one capable...

The HMS Ark Royal carried the Harrier and 3 types of helicopter during its active service, these included the Lynx which is currently the fastest...

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his...

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.

An insider's look at the engineering and scientific miracles behind the things that form the modern world.

Explore the surprising things we know (and don’t know) about why people are the way they are through expert interviews, rare footage from...

This compelling series investigates the motives and m.o. of female murderers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women...

Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.

Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's...

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

Porn has gone mainstream; the question is, can we handle it? This exploration of the intersection of sex and technology is told through the stories...

Witness the stories of history's most notorious kingpins, their terrifying enforcers, and the men and women who've sworn to bring them down.

Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act...

Award-winning actor and nervous explorer Eugene Levy steps out of his comfort zone for a whirlwind tour of the world's most beautiful and intriguing...