Explore TV Series

Discover Europe in all its diversity of viewpoints

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

This documentary series follows emergency services from various fire stations in the Ruhr area up close and portrays the people in their grueling everyday working life.

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.

Celebrating life in the UK in all its diversity – as seen through the eyes of remarkable people doing extraordinary things.

Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened...

Exciting stories on a wide variety of topics from around the globe: DW brings viewers background reports from the worlds of politics, business, science, culture, nature, history, lifestyle and sport.

Filmed simultaneously with ambulance crews across the West Midlands, this series shows in real time the range of cases paramedics attend to.

Two families from completely opposite ends of the financial spectrum and class divide swap homes, budgets and social status for seven days to discover how the other side lives.

There is nowhere more powerful and unforgiving yet more beautiful and compelling than the ocean. Join us and explore the greatest yet least known parts of our planet.

Follow determined investigators working the most shocking murder cases as they reconstruct the tragic final hours in the victim's life, in order to find their killer and crack the case.

The story of the NHS in unprecedented times.

The smiling parents, the respectable groom, the helpful official... all with evil inside. Britain's Most Evil Killers explores the crimes of Britain's most brutal killers.

British family estate agent teams help sun-thirsty house-hunters find their dream property abroad.

Recounts the largest migration movement in history in which 55 million Europeans left their home countries and set off to America.

This true crime series investigates newfound evidence and unanswered questions in famous criminal cases, such as the murder of Asunta Basterra Porto.

Giles Coren and Monica Galetti travel the globe visiting some of the world's most incredible hotels. They go beyond the lobby to see the areas that the public never see and roll up their sleeves to work alongside staff.

Every two minutes someone in Britain goes missing. Multiple cameras follow the hunt for missing people, from the police tasked with finding them to loved ones left at home.

Run by former championdancers Warren and Jane Bullock, the ZigZag Dance Factory in Wolverhampton coaches everyone from eight-year-old beginners to 14-year-old national champions.

Series celebrating inspirational farming families and the rural events where they showcase their hard work, as they try to win the top prizes.

Drawing on newly available evidence, this epic series explores the Windsor dynasty's gripping family saga, providing fresh insights into how our royal family have survived four generations of crisis.

Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound.

Documentary series in which animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions.

Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen follow in the footsteps of their favourite British artists.

One of rock music’s iconic and tour-hardened frontmen, Brian Johnson, gives us a brand new and exclusive take on one aspect of the rock and roll life: live performance, touring and being ‘on the road’.

Whether thrust into the limelight or fame hungry attention seekers, they all shared one thing: their public deception led to their demise. The signs were in front of us, but how do you spot a criminal?In this exclusive ID series, a crack team of three experts - body language, voice and psychology - analyse iconic TV appeals by those who claimed to be grief stricken but turned out to be the perpetrators.

Award-winning architect Piers Taylor and actress and property enthusiast Caroline Quentin explore extraordinary homes built in mountain, forest, coast and underground locations around the world.

Paul Hollywood who is an actor and a baker from Liverpool tries to find out how the most popular cars of the three big European countries express their nation's identities and the connections with their cultures.

Elizabeth I may be remembered as the greatest monarch to rule England, but during her lifetime she was beset by enemies and hers was a life of constant battling.

Hogie and his friends travel the world, exploring far-flung locales like Buenos Aires, Cairo, Hawaii and the Galapagos Islands.

Bettany Hughes relives eight pivotal days that defined the Roman Empire and made it the world's first superpower.

In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

The Internet is a revolution that has no equal in the history of mankind. Digital is changing man and society in unexpected ways. What we call the future in the most technologically advanced countries is already present. A journey through the most advanced research centers and startuppers, abroad and in Italy, to understand how these changes are changing our way of life and our identity.

Expert soccer pundits and retired footballers talk to Gary Neville about the sport and speak about a few compelling matches they played against each other.

Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to war.

TV presenter and former cruise ship entertainer Jane McDonald hosts a travel show in which she embarks on a series of ocean odysseys aboard some of the world's largest and most luxurious cruise ships.