The Riddle (35mm Feature & Trailer)

The city of Pompeii uniquely captures the public's imagination - in AD79 a legendary volcanic disaster left its citizens preserved in ashes to this very day. Yet no-one has been able to unravel the full story that is at the heart of our fascination - how did those bodies become frozen in time?

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.

Episode 1: Strange Relations Discover how animals use secret powers to form unexpected alliances.

The world's greatest paintings - and the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets the underworld.

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

Well over a century ago, a forgotten inventor was using an electric car to commute to his offices in Wolverhampton, a true pioneer of eco transport. Brendan Walker uncovers the story of Thomas Parker and of the 21st century innovators putting the Midlands at the heart of a revolution in eco-friendly transport.

Years before the attacks on the World Trade Centre, two world shaking incidents had demonstrated commercial aeroplanes uneasy relationship with terrorism. The programme investigates the world’s biggest hi-jacking in Jordan in 1970 and Lockerbie; Britain’s worst air disaster, on the 21st December 1988.

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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.

Conspiracy To Kill Two failed assassination attempts: Adolf Hitler on the 20th July 1944 and President Charles de Gaulle on the 22nd August 1962.