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When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven...

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David...

England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn...

Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German...

Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the...

Here's the full true story of "Bloody Omaha". Thousands of soldiers were killed as soon as they stepped onto the beach, or even into the water as...

Behind the scenes of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', produced by The Open University.

Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental debates. This animation takes an insect eye view...

Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine have three children who have been diagnosed with autism. In this documentary, they meet other parents,...