Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Inside Hampton Court Palace

July 2025 •English

On the edge of London stands Hampton Court, one of Britain's biggest palaces and most popular tourist spots, attracting almost a million visitors every year. Spanning 750 acres of grounds, it boasts 1,300 rooms and 23 courtyards...along with a host of secrets and historic stories. This two-part special provides an exclusive and intimate look at life inside the court today for the people keeping Henry VIII's world alive in the modern age, and also explores what life was like in the palace where the private world of the Tudors began.

Six Wives with Lucy Worsley

July 2025 •English

In an ambitious and groundbreaking approach to drama and history featuring dramatic reconstruction, historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the Tudor Court to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of Henry VIII's six wives.

Walking Tudor England

July 2025 •English

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb wends her way around the country on the trail of history's most fascinating dynasty.

Tudor Monastery Farm

July 2025 •English

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

July 2025 •English

Through dramatic reconstructions and his own passionate narration, Dr. David Starkey, the controversial Tudor historian, profiles the six women who married Henry Vlll.

Tony Robinson's History of Britain

July 2025 •English

Taking a 'bottom-up' view of history by exploring everyday lives of the nations ordinary people.

Elizabeth

July 2025 •English

Elizabeth is a four-part British documentary about Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Walking Through History

July 2025 •English

Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.

The Tudors

July 2025 •English

The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

Wolf Hall

July 2025 •English

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

The Virgin Queen

July 2025 •English

The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

July 2025 •English

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.

Henry VIII

July 2025 •English

The life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married for the sixth time.

The Spanish Princess

July 2025 •English

The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

Murder Loves Company

July 2025 •English

True-crime stories about murders that take place among close-knit groups of people, including coworkers, neighbors and community members.

Team Bachstad

July 2025 •Norwegian

Øystein Bache and Rune Gokstad crosses different countries in medium-to-low suitable contraptions as a veteran fire truck, tuk-tuk and cargo moped.

Predator Land

July 2025 •English

A look at the lives of some of the iconic predators that call Africa home, including lions, cheetahs, leopards and wild dogs.

World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly

July 2025 •English

Madrid from the sky

July 2025 •Spanish

Livng Aleppo

July 2025 •English

Stories of Aleppo is about the life experiences and memories of the Syrian people during the war in Aleppo. Their stories revealing daily life in a destroyed city. How society in a war zone searches for creative solutions to live and to survive. How students sit for their exams, even though their university is being bombed. How people get to work and shop for groceries, day after day, under the constant threat of snipers and bomb attacks. Through conversations with locals we will know their stories and experiences in an artistic, spatial rendition.