Lion Television Movies
- 2020
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb7.32020HD
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets...
- 2024
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors6.82024HD
Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told through archeological evidence and reenactments.
- 2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story6.42014HD
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China,...
- 2018
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor
RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor4.92018HD
To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force, Ewan and Colin McGregor take to the skies in some of the world's most iconic planes. These are the...
- 2010
First Light
First Light5.52010HD
In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot....
- 2016
How Dogs Got Their Shapes
How Dogs Got Their Shapes72016HD
With many breeds and countless variations, canines are one of the most diverse species on Earth. From ears to tails, coats to paws, every part of...
- 2010
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town5.52010HD
The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live?...
- 2008
Hitler's Britain
Hitler's Britain62008HD
A "What if?" alternative history sees Nazi Germany prevailing in the second World War. First the occupiers establish their power bases, before they...
- 2003
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World02003HD
An exploration into the man behind the film-inspired myth, from both Western and Arab perspectives. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a 24-year-old British...
- 2010
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain6.32010HD
Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battle of Britain, when 'the few' of the RAF faced the...
- 2017
Secrets of the Forbidden City
Secrets of the Forbidden City92017HD
The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of...
- 2018
Julius Caesar Revealed
Julius Caesar Revealed82018HD
Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Julius Caesar, and to challenge public perception, exploring Caesar's surprising legacy.
- 2004
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance7.32004HD
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill,...
- 2022
Being Mum with MND
Being Mum with MND02022HD
Documentary following the life of a young woman living with motor neurone disease (MND) as she takes on motherhood and plans her marriage to the man...
- 2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire82015HD
- 2007
Consenting Adults
Consenting Adults5.72007HD
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...
- 2010
Alexandria: The Greatest City
Alexandria: The Greatest City82010HD
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to...
- 2013
Caligula with Mary Beard
Caligula with Mary Beard7.62013HD
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus...
- 2017
Chinese Chariots Revealed
Chinese Chariots Revealed82017HD
- 2015
Confucius
Confucius82015HD
Confucius was one of history's most influential thinkers. He was a sage, philosopher and teacher who, with Socrates and Buddha, lived at an...