Britain

Katharine Birbalsingh is happy to be labelled Britain's Strictest Headmistress. She runs the Michaela Community School in Wembley. It's a culturally diverse school in one of London's most deprived boroughs, and yet the children are perfectly behaved.

Cerrie Burnell presents a history of disabled people's struggle for human rights in Britain. She also shares inspiring stories of pioneering campaigners for social change, and looks at the challenges still to be faced in the future.

Charting key moments that shaped the history of Britain's black queer community, this film reveals how the largely undocumented struggles of activists created the platforms black LGBTQIA+ people enjoy today.

The story of Britain’s long relationship with Blondie - the part it played in helping the band to international success and the impact the band had on British fans and musicians.

Britain’s Wicca Man tells the extraordinary story of Britain's fastest growing religious group - Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner. Historian and leading expert in Pagan studies, Professor Ronald Hutton, explores the unlikely origins of modern pagan witchcraft and experiences first hand its growing influence throughout Britain today. Gardner’s story and the story of Wicca itself is a bizarre one. The film tells of a peculiar man who saw that the world was ready for a new religion based on magic, sex, nature and ritual - and gave it to us. Documentary first broadcast in 2011. (Source: Timeline World History Documentaires on YouTube)

Documentary telling the story of the generation of people who left the Caribbean for a new life in Britain. Members of the Windrush generation will share their stories with well-known figures including Sir Trevor McDonald, Alesha Dixon, Mel B, Judy Love and HRH The Prince of Wales.

A history of the American War of Independence.

Archive footage and celebrity recollections reveal how 50 years ago during an energy crisis the government imposed a three-day working week and UK-wide household blackouts.

Join the festive cheer all over the country in this short film showing how Christmases past were celebrated in London, the countryside and at home.

"Britain's New Railway" features the team behind one of the largest engineering projects in UK history: High Speed One, the risky £7 billion bid to complete a high-speed train link between London and Paris. It took 9 years, thousands of people and millions of man-hours to construct. It has delivered over 109km of new high-speed railway, the world's longest span concrete high-speed rail bridge, 47km of cutting edge tunnels, and in St Pancras International, has created a truly world class station. On the 6th November 2007, High Speed 1 (HS1) was delivered to the nation. Britain had finally got its first new railway for over a century, and was fully connected to the rapidly expanding European high-speed rail network.

When a winter storm hits, most people hunker down until it’s over. But all over the UK, there are men and women whose jobs force them to go out in the worst gales, the strongest blizzards, the iciest roads and the deadliest seas.

Wordless portrait of British transport, featuring cross-channel ferries, InterCity 125s, and cars.

Intended for European audiences to encourage them to drive to Britain for their holidays. Shows the travel facilities offered by Sealink, and suggests some of Britain's tourist attractions.

With previously unheard interviews with the band and new interviews with those who met them, this is the story of ABBA’s love affair with the UK since their Eurovision triumph.

A shocking exploration of the stories of the Black and Brown people brought to Victorian Britain - and exploited for popular entertainment and scientific experimentation.

"The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale who turned the lens on a broken benefits system which they had seen first hand unfairly penalising vulnerable people in their community. The team of reporters met friends, family and others in the community trying to navigate the system while also trying to advocate for change in greater Manchester and across the country. This film was made as part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain."

Documentary which looks back at Britain during the 18th century, a time of sexual excess and liberation, particularly in London - a city of 'giddy liberty'.

The jury of 9 go through a list of comedians and eliminate names, until they are down to an agreed upon top 30. The problem with the format was there was a mix of stand up comedians and comedy actors - thereby comparing apples to oranges and probably satisfying no one.

A Greenpark production in association with the Film Producers Guild for the Ministry of Information focussed on The Fens, an area of England in the East, near the Wash. Part of their Pattern of Britain series.