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Part biographical drama charting the life of Cecil Rhodes.
BBC One
A long-running series of plays.
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Drama series exploring the life of General Orde Wingate.
BBC Two
The classic story by Henry James.
Rufus Sewell stars in a four-part dramatisation of the life of the charismatic monarch.
Andrew Davies dramatisation of George Eliot novel.
Noir crime series set in 1950s Dublin, based on the novels by Benjamin Black
Drama set during the War of the Roses, one of the bloodiest wars in English history.
Three-part factual drama of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.
Tense combat drama series revealing experiences of British soldiers in World War One.
BBC Three
Banished is set in the reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788.
An adaptation of Shakespeare’s fifteen sequential history plays.
A family's struggle to save their land during the trials of the 1846 Irish Famine.
Three part dramatisation of the life of Karl Marx’s daughter Eleanor.
Lavish, romantic adventure story about the 18th-century Scottish hero Rob Roy MacGregor.
Drama exploring the relationship between hostages Brian Keenan and John McCarthy.
Dramatisation about three Russian spies who penetrated the British Foreign Service.
BBC Four
Poignant dramatisation of the life of Oscar Wilde.
Dramatisation of how the Thatcher government went to war against Argentina.
A politically motivated marriage fails to reconcile warring factions in C16th .
Two physicists behind the atomic bomb, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, meet in 1941.
A journey through Russian history through the eyes of a 19th-century French aristocrat.
After sacking the Inca Empire, a group of Spanish adventurers sets out to find El Dorado.
Japanese period drama. Violence that erupts when newcomers a Samurai militia group.
Four ordinary people confront uncertainties that lie ahead at the end of World War Two.
Drama chronicling the rise and fall of the 18th-century dandy and man-about-town.
Drama-documentary telling the story of one of the last trials by battle fought in Europe.
The story of 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc, based on the play by GB Shaw.
Celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell had one constant companion, her dog, Moonbeam.
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When time was standardised in the 19th century, not everyone was convinced by the idea.
1956: Eden and Nasser battle over Egypt nationalising the Suez Canal.
Blinded by an accident, Louis Braille aspires to improve blind people's status.
Summer 1802: Beethoven's life is at crisis point with his impending deafness.
Royal Mint warden Isaac Newton goes to any length to pursue a notorious counterfeiter.
Allan Beswick recalls the circumstances of the nationalisation of Carlisle's pubs in 1916.
BBC Radio 4
Sir Thomas Phillipps aimed to own a copy of every book, but his mania came at a price.
Oscar-winning drama following life in a small English village during World War II.
Historical action drama set on the Raj's north-western frontier.
The son of the disgraced Earl of Falworth must fight to redeem his family name.
American Civil War adventure. A small cavalry unit embark on a sabotage mission.
Lavish epic of power, ion and intrigue set in Imperial Rome. Starring Deborah Kerr.
The epic story of the 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar - known as El Cid.
A Cossack chief sends his son to Polish schools to learn from their sworn adversaries.
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII recalls how he wooed and wed his six wives.
A shipload of slaves overpower their captors at sea and land on the shores of America.
After Marcus Aurelius is poisoned, his cruel son Commodus becomes emperor.
Saga following the fortunes of a Saxon nobleman and his Robin Hood-type retainer.
Adaptation of the Biblical tale of Solomon and the temptress Queen of Sheba.
A grieving Queen Victoria finds herself drawn to an unconventional Highlander.
Biographical drama about the 15th-century French heroine.
