Age Of Empires IV - 'Hands on History' films

Using 36 barrels of gunpowder Richard Hammond finds out whether Guy Fawkes’ attempt to blow up the House of Lords would have succeeded.

Dramatised documentary about the infamous Tudor king and the women he married. Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones tell the stories of Henry's last two wives - the fifth, the young, beautiful but indiscreet Catherine Howard, the sixth, the mature and wise Catherine Parr who nearly lost her head when she pushed him too far on religious reform.

In the third and final part of the series, Alastair Sooke charts the decline and fall of the Roman Empire through some of its hidden and most magical artistic treasures. He travels to Leptis Magna in Libya shortly after the overthrow of Gaddafi and finds one of the best preserved Roman cities in the world and the cradle of later Roman art. Sooke discovers glorious mosaics which have never been filmed before, but also finds evidence of shocking neglect of Libya's Roman heritage by the Gaddafi regime. His artistic tour takes him to Egypt and the northern frontiers of the empire where he encounters stunning mummy paintings and exquisite silver and glassware. As Rome careered from one crisis to another, official art became more hard boiled and militaristic and an obscure cult called Christianity rose up to seize the mantle of Western art for centuries to come.

As autumn ends, winter proofing begins in earnest: essential work against cold and frost.

When night falls, everyone heads for home. But what lurks in the darkness is far more chilling than anyone could have imagined.

Suzannah Lipscomb's investigation into the notorious 17th-century witch trials concludes with a profile of Matthew Hopkins, the opportunistic puritan witch-hunter who transformed paranoia about Satanism into a lucrative business as he hanged hundreds of people for crimes they could not possibly have committed.

An RAF Test Pilot is trapped in a stricken jet descending rapidly to Earth. Will he be able to eject in time? And what was the experiment for?

Episode 5: Chaos Documenting the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the eyes of its citizens. Presented by Neil Stuke.

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EPISODE 4 - ORDINARY HEROES The stories of how George Crosses were awarded to two civilians. In 1968, the air-stewardess Jane Harrison saves dozens of lives when the BOAC plane they are on crash-lands at Heathrow and bursts into flames. Refusing to abandon her post and repeatedly throwing herself into the flaming fuselage to rescue passengers, she tragically loses her life while saving others. Then the extraordinary tale of how 15-year-old Jack Bamford saves his family from their burning home in Nottinghamshire. As he jumps into the inferno and the shirt starts burning on his back, his only thought is for the rescue of his two young brothers.