Industrial Britain

Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration...

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

Examines the mesmerising construction of clear crystal glass pieces created by the craftsmen of Waterford. The process from the intense heat of the...

Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of his inspiration” in this vivid Arts...

The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.

In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was...

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.

This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at...

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the...

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

Promotes television sets and the broadcast of New York's first regularly scheduled programs by providing a clinical look at the inner workings of...