Uncover the Past Series & Episodes

Uncover the Past

  • Abandoned Engineering

    Description: A look at some of the greatest engineering projects that have now been abandoned.; Category: Engineering; 112 episodes available.

  • 1066: A Year to Conquer England with Dan Snow

    Description: Historian Dan Snow explores events leading up to the Battle of Hastings.; Category: History; 3 episodes available.

  • Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

    Description: Gripping drama following the arms race that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.; Category: History; 3 episodes available.

  • Hunting Outback Gold

    Description: Two friends lead an expedition deep into the Australian Outback to find gold.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 6 episodes available.

  • Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets of Orkney

    Description: An investigation into Orkney being the capital of Stone Age Britain.; Category: History; 3 episodes available.

  • Smoke & Steel

    Description: Examining the Industrial revolution - the age of smoke and steel.; Category: Engineering; 6 episodes available.

  • David Jason's Secret Service

    Description: David Jason offers insights into modern British spy history.; Category: History; 3 episodes available.

  • The Warship: Tour of Duty

    Description: The story of HMS Queen Elizabeth's first operational mission.; Category: Military & War; 6 episodes available.

  • The Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed

    Description: Chilling documentary that reveals how the famous Berlin Wall came to be.; Category: Military & War; 1 episode available.

  • Empire with Michael Portillo

    Description: The story of how a small island on the edge of Europe built the biggest empire.; Category: History; 4 episodes available.

  • The Sixties; The Beatles Decade

    Description: Documentary series drawing a parallel between events of the 1960s and the Beatles' career; Category: History; 5 episodes available.

  • Stuff the British Stole

    Description: Marc Fennell unravels the mysteries behind iconic objects taken by the British Empire.; Category: History; 6 episodes available.

  • Ghosts of Alderney

    Description: Documentary that reveals new evidence of atrocities committed by Nazis on British soil.; Category: History; 1 episode available.

  • Shipwreck Secrets

    Description: Shipwrecks worldwide are waiting to be discovered and have their secrets revealed.; Category: History; 6 episodes available.

  • The Boat That Guy Built

    Description: Guy Martin renovates a narrowboat with inventions from the Industrial Revolution.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 6 episodes available.

  • Secrets of the Transport Museum

    Description: Follow Brooklands volunteers and staff as they care for historic motors and airplanes.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 20 episodes available.

  • Forbidden History

    Description: Jamie Theakston investigates incredible tales from the annals of history.; Category: History; 11 episodes available.

  • Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age

    Description: Fred Dibnah presents this series celebrating Britain's industrial heritage.; Category: Engineering; 6 episodes available.

  • Great War Stories with Dan Snow

    Description: A selection of previously untold accounts from the First World War.; Category: Military & War; 1 episode available.

  • Blackadder's History

    Description: Join Tony Robinson & John Lloyd to discuss the history behind the Blackadder series in these exclusive interviews.; Category: History; 4 episodes available.

  • David Jason's Great British Inventions

    Description: David Jason investigates various innovations and the people behind them.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 4 episodes available.

  • David Jason: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

    Description: The actor discovers the machines that made America and changed the world.; Category: Factual Entertainment; 5 episodes available.

  • Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain

    Description: Fred Dibnah searches Britain for engineering skills and technology from a bygone age.; Category: Engineering; 10 episodes available.

  • History Hunters

    Description: Dave and Steve Nuwar run a military antiques business packed with fascinating items.; Category: History; 6 episodes available.

  • How Britain Worked

    Description: Guy Martin recreates technical achievements of the 19th century.; Category: Engineering; 6 episodes available.

  • World's Greatest Palaces

    Description: Behind the scenes of the most opulent and historic royal residences on Earth.; Category: History; 10 episodes available.

  • Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone

    Description: Celebration of the many sides of Fred Dibnah; Category: Engineering; 12 episodes available.

  • Wild West: America's Great Frontier

    Description: Exploring the ways that nature survives the harsh environment of America's wild west.; Category: Natural History; 3 episodes available.