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In 18th-century London, novelists Henry and John Fielding fight crime on the perilous streets of Covent Garden, determined to clean up the city rife with prostitution, gambling, and villainy before modern policing.

Despite earlier promises to pass his crown to one of his Flemish, Viking, or Norman relatives, English King Edward the Confessor dies in 1066, leaving his crown to Anglo-Saxon Harold Godwinson, causing a bloody succession war.

50 years on from the making of The Wicker Man (1973), director Robin Hardy's lost papers come to filmmaker son Justin. Enlisting his brother Dominic, they journey to discover the complex nature of independent filmmaking and fatherhood.

A TV mini-series that unveils the behind-closed-doors story of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.

With the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, safety did not come to its 60,000 prisoners right away. Starring Iain Glen, this award-winning movie recalls the actual events that transpired at Belsen as the British fought typhus, starvation and their own humanity. Brought to you by XiveTV.

In November 1930, brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler's SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club, killing several members. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten prosecutes them and, at the suggestion of his boss Rudolf Olden, agrees to subpoena Hitler, who had supposedly renounced violence yet clearly supported the SA, to discredit him as a popular figure. Against the advice of his assistant Margot Furst Hans, prepares his case, even involving Stennes, a rival Nazi to Hitler. At the trial, Hans, the practiced lawyer, runs rings round Hitler, who is frequently unable to answer his questions. The Brown Shirts are convicted, but it is a Pyrrhic victory, for two years later Hitler will become chancellor, Hans will be arrested, and he will die in the Dachau concentration camp.

During the first few months after the deadly First World War, a virulent, dreadful flu breaks out. Point of perspective from Doctor Niven, the CMO of Manchester, on how he carried out this sickness.

Explores the part immigrant communities played in key events of British history. These included Polish fighter pilots' in the Battle of Britain, black sailors involved in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Each episode tells one real horror story, based on true testimonies, brought to life through straight-to-camera documentary interviews and beautiful scripted drama. The spine of each film is the gripping retrospective narrative of a series of traumatic events and horrifying happenings - inexplicable paranormal activity and weird ghostly goings-on - which happened to real, ordinary people. A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE SERIES.

This film takes a fresh look at the Battle of Trafalgar through the eyes of the HMS Victory's surgeon and his medical team that supported the brutal tactics leading to Nelson's victory over the French navy. However, there was one patient they did not save.

Kate Stonehill and Justin Hardy co-direct a visual poetry piece about the history of The Slade art school in London.

In lawless 1750s London, Henry Fielding and his blind brother John set up the Bow Street Runners, an embryonic police force with three other men who must be above corruption, bankrolled by Lord Newcastle, to bring order to a lawless city.

A vicar's murder leads the Runners to an illegal, underground gay culture, punishable by death. Amid political pressure to avoid scandal, one of the Runners is implicated, causing the brothers to confront their own prejudices.

A break-in at a merchant's Mayfair home brings the Bow Street Runners into conflict with their patron, Lord Newcastle. He reminds the Fieldings that their prime duty is to protect the property of the rich and yet burglaries have increased.

A high-profile jailbreak humiliates the Bow Street Runners and risks making Lord Newcastle look foolish for supporting them. The Runners travel to the Seven Dials to track down Jones, with Fielding leading the raid, at his own risk.

Henry looks back on the struggle to fund the Bow Street Runners in the first place, and reflects on how close London came to not having a police force at all. As the new magistrates of Westminster, novelist Henry Fielding and his blind half-brother John want to set up a police force to tackle London's soaring crime epidemic. They find a potential patron in Lord Newcastle, the Prime Minister's brother, but he is unsure of such a force's merits. With the help of Saunders Welch, the High Constable of Holborn, the brothers set out to show Newcastle they can rid the streets of the violent criminal gangs.

A group of Eastern European pilots who with their advanced experience and ability help the allies win the Battle of Britain during the Second World War. They combined forces with the British Air Force in Polish Flying Squadron 303. Their contribution has been largely unnoted by history and yet their assistance made a massive difference to the outcome of the airborne effort. Feric was writing his personal diary from September 1939, which were turned into No.303 Squadron's unit history.

Though the Great Fire of London is acknowledged to have been started accidentally the programme details the thoughts at the time that it had been begun on purpose by Dutch saboteurs - England had recently been at war with the Dutch. Dutch nationals and other foreign residents in London were beaten up by mobs and needed to be rescued by the watch. Hubert,a young Frenchman,actually admitted to causing the blaze and was hung and only afterwards was it discovered that he could not possibly have done so. Wealthy European Londoners were however generous in contributing to re-building the city after the fire.

About the historical background to one of the most famous horror icons of our time - Frankenstein. In 19th century London, two decades before Mary Shelley wrote her famous novel about Frankenstein, the scientist Giovanni Aldini managed to revive dead animals, parts of people and recently beheaded criminals with the help of electricity. But to attempt the ultimate goal - to play god and resurrect a human - he needed a male corpse. With the help of a Mr. Pass whose job it was to procure bodies for surgeons to dissect, they found a perfect candidate. The evidence against George Foster was hardly complete but Aldini was determined and soon he had his subject - but the experiment was to have an extraordinary, deadly climax.