Lion Television Movies
- 2024
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors6.82024HD
Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told through archeological evidence and reenactments.
- 2020
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb7.3372020HD
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets...
- 2013
Caligula with Mary Beard
Caligula with Mary Beard7.62013HD
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanic...
- 2003
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World02003HD
An exploration into the man behind the film-inspired myth, from both Western and Arab perspectives. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a 24-year-old British spy,...
- 2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story6.52014HD
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China, st...
- 2010
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town5.52010HD
The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A...
- 2007
Consenting Adults
Consenting Adults5.72007HD
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homose...
- 2015
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire82015HD
- 2016
How Dogs Got Their Shapes
How Dogs Got Their Shapes72016HD
With many breeds and countless variations, canines are one of the most diverse species on Earth. From ears to tails, coats to paws, every part of thei...
- 2010
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain6.32010HD
Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battle of Britain, when 'the few' of the RAF faced the...
- 2009
Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer
Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer6.72009HD
Cleopatra - the most famous woman in history. We know her as a great queen, a beautiful lover and a political schemer. For 2,000 years almost all evid...
- 2003
Martin Luther
Martin Luther6.12003HD
Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man'...
- 2004
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance7.32004HD
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, dupl...
- 2024
Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard
Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard7.8332024HD
With unique insights in epic locations and interpretations of ancient inscriptions and artefacts, Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors...
- 2010
First Light
First Light5.52010HD
In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot. Afte...
- 2021
Saving Venice
Saving Venice7.72021HD
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers battling the forces of nature to try to save this hist...
- 2023
The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime
The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime4.72023HD
Twenty-five years ago, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and beaten. Days later, the unthinkable happened and his death sparked a national outcry fo...
- 2019
Guedelon II: Rebuilding the Past
Guedelon II: Rebuilding the Past9.32019HD
For the past twenty years, in the Burgundy region of France, archaeologists and craftsmen have been working on the reconstruction of the fortified cas...
- 2010
Alexandria: The Greatest City
Alexandria: The Greatest City82010HD
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to b...
- 2011
Transplant
Transplant02011HD
TV movie by Nic Blower