Ed Stobart

Ardal O’Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it means to be Irish.

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, and now, a new, cutting-edge investigation at a mysterious tomb could reveal the secrets of this formidable lost kingdom.

The English language is spoken by 450 million people around the globe, with a further one billion using it as a second language. It is arguably Britain’s most famous export. The man often given credit for the global triumph of English, and the invention of many of our modern words, is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s plays first hit the stage four centuries ago, as the explorers of Elizabethan England were laying the foundations for the British empire. It was this empire that would carry English around the world. Language historian and BBC New Generation Thinker Dr John Gallagher asks whether the real story of how English became a global linguistic superpower is more complex.

Dr Fern Riddell is a young historian and author who goes back to the archives to challenge more traditional historical views of Victorian society. Her investigation into a sensational Victorian high court trial, which took place in 1877, sheds new light on the ‘no sex please, we are British’ cliché often associated with Victorian England.

The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and bloodily repressed. Thousands of people died, but the basis for China's future was definitely planted.

In a long-form interview, Kate recalls how she was wounded by gunfire and narrowly escaped death herself as she and her cameraman remained in the line of fire while an estimated 2,000 pro-democracy demonstrators were shot down by Chinese government troops. Kate reviews the reports she made on the ground, with additional insight from leading historian Professor Steve Tsang, and draws on the BBC's archive to assess how film-makers have portrayed China before and after the upheaval.

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge.

The extraordinary untold story of how an NYPD bomb disposal expert played a key role in helping defuse the decades old "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. In 1975, Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad – gathered a group of family, friends and neighbours to start a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland a chance to temporarily escape the violent turmoil of their daily lives. From modest beginnings, Project Children ultimately brought over 20,000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban US for summer-long visits where they forged unexpected friendships and found they had more in common with the 'enemy' than they thought. Now this extraordinary untold story is being brought to the screen in a new documentary by Des Henderson, and narrated by Liam Neeson, entitled How To Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story.

A documentary following the atypical path of soul singer Roberta Flack and her rise to fame, set against the turbulent backdrop of America's Civil Rights movement. Features interviews with Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis and Cissy Houston.

The explorers Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice Climb the remote and little known mountain Puncak Mandala in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. They have to cross remote jungles, climb icy cliffs and navigate the curiosity and fear of indigenous peoples in order to get to the top.

In the seventh film in the series, in April 1916, a disillusioned Indy hops the ocean to Europe where he figures the Great War might offer him a greater sense of purpose.

{서기 2천년대에 세상이 바뀌었다. 기후(Climate), 국가(Nation) 그 모든 것이 격변했다. 지표는 오염되어 매마른 사막으로 변하고 그 저주받은 땅(The Cursed Earth)을 피해 수 백 수 천만의 사람들이 몇 안되는 거대 도시에 모여살게 되자 거리는 폭력으로 얼룩졌다. 정부는 치안 능력을 상실하고 법은 무너졌다. 혼란 속에서 새 질서가 탄생했다. 한 손으로 정의를 구현하며 다른 한 손으로 처벌권을 행사하는 새로운 엘리트 집단이 다스리는 사회, 새 통치자들은 경찰이자 배심원이었으며 심판자였다. 사람들은 그를 판사(The Judges)라 불렀다.} 서기 2139년, 그 옛날 뉴욕이었던 메가 씨티 원. 인구 6500만의 이 도시는 폭동과 소요로 들썩거리고 있다. 이 곳의 법과 질서를 전복하려는 무서운 음모에 의해 가장 강력한 심판자로 두려움의 대상인 대상인 드레드(실베스터 스탤론 분)가 살인 누명을 쓴다. 그를 도우려는 선임 판사(막스 본 시도우 분)와 동료 허쉬(다이안 레인 분)의 노력도 소용없이, 드레드는 무기형을 언도 받고 도시에서 추방되는데. [스포일러] 이 음모의 배후 인물은 사악한 천재 리코(아만드 아산테 분). '야누스 프로젝트'란 비밀실험에 의해 탄생한 드레드는 유전자 결합에 의해 탄생한 인물이다. 그런데, 저지 드레드를 위한 완벽한 유전자 결합 과정에서 악의 화신 리코도 태어난다. 저지 드레드와 리코는 대결의 운명을 안고 태어난 것이다. 흉악한 범죄자 리코는 탈옥한 뒤 부패한 대법관과 짜고 메가시티원을 지배할 음모를 꾸민 것이다.

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

라스베이거스 무명가수인 랄프가 영국 왕실의 손자라는 사실이 밝혀지고, 국왕이 되면서 일어나는 해프닝을 그린 영국 코미디영화. 어설픈 듯하면서도 진실함이 물씬 풍기는 존 굿맨의 연기가 영화를 단순히 슬랩스틱 코미디에서 벗어나게 만든다. 원작은 엠린 윌리엄스의 소설 'Headlong'. 영국 왕실이 기념촬영을 하다가 감전으로 전원 사망한다는 사실부터가 상당히 코믹한(?) 발상이고, 결국은 왕실의 안락보다 사랑을 찾아 떠난다는 점에서 '아나스타샤'를 떠올리게 한다.