Witty, irreverent and unbiasedly honest, Top Gear is full of stunts, challenges and fast-paced banter. What other show in the world could come up with ‘caravan conkers’ or have the imagination to ask questions like, ‘Can you build your own amphibious car?’ or ‘Can you play soccer with cars as the players?’
Put your cranial capacity to the test. Either challenge yourself and try to hit the high score board, or go head-to-head with other players online.
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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their idiotic friend Karl Pilkington on a journey around the world to see the Seven Wonders.
Ancient Worlds is a voyage of discovery from the birth of the first cities through the development of trade, warfare and religion.
Prepare to immerse yourself in the world of Europe’s first great civilisation, the Minoans, and experience first-hand how the greatest disaster of the ancient world gave rise to one of the most enduring legends of all time.
This companion piece to the drama Atlantis uncovers the truth behind the legend and presents compelling new evidence that Plato’s story was based on the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world.
Michael Palin celebrates the 20th anniversary of his TV classic, Around The World In 80 Days, in this one-hour special.
A race across continents against the clock and the climates.
City economist Conor Woodman has worked in the world of finance for the last ten years. Now he’s spotted an exciting investment opportunity - If his hunch is right, he can sell his flat, invest the profits and embark on a round the world daring adventure of high-stakes economics, returning six months later with an extra £75,000 in his pocket.
Join Bruce Parry on a breathtaking journey from the Amazon’s source deep in the Peruvian Andes to its vast mouth on Brazil’s Atlantic coast.
Over 5 weeks, 6 young consumers will swap their luxury lives for simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia, to live and work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle our luxury goods.
Charts the true-life diaries of lion prides, cheetah families and a mother leopard and her cub.
A unique television documentary series following the lives of children born in the United Kingdom in the year 2000.
Dr Jonathan Foyle, architectural historian and novice climber, scales Britain's most iconic structures, to reveal the buildings' secrets.
Are we born or are we made? Follow 25 families from all over Britain whose children were born in the year 2000.
Are we born or are we made?
The series follows 22 families from all over Britain whose children were born in the year 2000.
Former SAS officer Chris Ryan joins secretive elite police units around the globe as they go on real-life missions against drug gangs, organised criminals, kidnappers and terrorists - missions that are as challenging and dangerous as any he was sent on during 11 years in the SAS.
TV presenter Dawn Porter embarks on an emotional journey to explore the nature of breast cancer.
Cameras take viewers behind the scenes to see science in the making and scientists come face to face with the beasts they have uncovered.
Ben Fogle joins an expedition across Antarctica; he joins a project hoping to preserve Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Hut, frozen in time for a century.
From Stone Age murders to Shakespeare’s first theatre, this pioneering series opens up the exciting world of archaeology, unearthing the amazing stories and thrilling treasures hidden just below Britain’s surface.
A passionate and experienced team attempt to uncover the secrets of World War I, excavating sites of infamous battles to discover more about life both in and out of the trenches.
In a new five-part series some of Britain’s leading scientific figures - Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson – tell the stories of the people behind these innovations.
The informative and stimulating documentary strand Horizon has been running for over 40 years, shedding light on unusual and intriguing people and phenomena.
In the first programme of this fascinating series, Michael traces how scientists set out to understand our emotions. He follows the shocking story of John B Watson’s experiments on a five-month-old baby, and psychologist Harry Harlow’s horrific experiments on baby monkeys.
Packed with real-life medical and personal dramas and cliffhanger moments, this fly-on-the-wall series puts the lives of six newly qualified doctors under the microscope during their first four months on the wards of a busy city hospital.
Six fast-food junkies go through every stage of growing, rearing, harvesting, processing, preparing and cooking the foods they love.
Top Gear’s James May travels the globe in search of the ultimate flying machine, the best robot and alternative ways to power the planet.
Top Gear’s James May travels the globe in search of the ultimate flying machine, the best robot and alternative ways to power the planet.
James May is a man on a mission to prove why traditional, old fashioned toys are still relevant today as he pushes them to the limit in spectacular, supersize challenges.
Louis Theroux spends some time locked up with the inmates of one of the largest jails in the world – Miami’s mega jail.
TV and film legends Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward go in search of the spirit of Australia on the ultimate horseback adventure across the Outback’s last frontier.
David Attenborough explores the world of amphibians and reptiles, a group of animals that have been around for millions of years and easily outnumber mammals and birds.
Louis Theroux returns for two new specials tackling risqué subject matter with his award-winning and praised investigative flair.
How will a group of western women cope when they are challenged to take on tribal women at their own sports and on their own turf?
Join Sir David Attenborough on his ground-breaking exploration into a spectacular miniature universe never normally seen, but teeming all around us.
The weird, wacky, wonderful world of Louis Theroux and his quest for bizarre subcultures.
The Life of Mammals is the story of 4,000 species that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on earth.
A retrospective of David Attenborough’s 50 years at the BBC – presented by Michael Palin.
Last Man Standing sends six adventurers to some of the most remote parts of the world to live with indigenous people. These are real tribes with real dangers.
Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime, as he concludes his look at the issue of law and disorder in two volatile and crime-ridden cities.
This landmark docu-series celebrates human ingenuity on an epic scale, revealing how these metropolises tick...and the enormous challenges they face.
On a quest to find the best, and most obscure, museum exhibits and explore the secrets they hold, Museum Secrets uncovers the weird, the astonishing and fascinating wonders of the world.
World-famous gardener Monty Don takes us on a trip around Italy's most beautiful gardens.
Earlier this year, New Zealand producers under 30 years were invited to apply for five short-form grants of NZ $5,000 each. These five winning shorts will be showcased on BBC Knowledge over a week-long event.
A unique perspective to a land of startling contradictions in a series that provides a fresh and engaging glimpse of a vast and diverse country.
Having become a modern-day Phileas Fogg in Around The World In 80 Days, Michael Palin’s next challenge is to traverse the globe from North to South.
An epic series celebrating the Earth as never before.
Piers Morgan gives us an access-all-areas VIP tour of some of the most glamorous locations in the world, offering a rare insight into the hotspots, people and extremes of three of the most desirable places on the planet.
The resourceful Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey from one end of Russia to the other, killing clichés and revelling in the unpredictable…
Ride with brave army truckers as they drive the most dangerous roads in the world to deliver vital fuel and medical supplies to the frontline troops in Afghanistan.
Richard Hammond meets his childhood hero, the legendary American stuntman Evel Knievel, who dominated the 70s with his breathtaking motorcycle jumps.
Travel with Ray Mears to the Amazon jungle, Tanzania, Canada, America and Sweden, as he explores the important role played by bushcraft in the survival of indigenous people.
Louis Theroux visits Central Valley, California – home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal-meth addiction is among the most prolific in the USA.
Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain host three days of live stargazing featuring epic images from observatories around the globe.
Seven Ages of Rock explores the music that has been the soundtrack of popular culture and defined each generation since the 60s, charting the story of rock music from the suburb to the stadium, from the crackly 45 to the MP3 download.
In this three-part series, Professor Richard Fortey of Britain’s Natural History Museum, travels across the globe to investigate the survivors of the three biggest mass extinctions: the end of the Ice Age; the KT boundary; and the Great Dying.
Pioneering Chinese companies are making inroads into every corner of the globe, from Wall Street to Rio de Janeiro and across Africa.
From the early 1960s a brazen band of audacious Australian thieves and con artists made headlines in London as they pulled off some of the most ambitious heists police had ever seen.
From thrillers to horror stories, spy movies and conspiracies, films captivate and entertain. But where does the inspiration come from? Are these stories purely fiction, or are they based on fact? True Stories uncovers the truth.
The Monastery follows five laymen on a spiritual journey to discover whether the age-old values of monks mean anything to a new generation.
This fascinating series explores whether the Rule of Benedict can be brought onto the streets of Britain. Can this ancient guide to finding inner peace work for real people, with real problems in the wider world?
Bruce Parry sheds the trappings of a Western existence and lives alongside tribes adopting their methods and practices.
The boys are back with new toys, in a new series of messing around with motors in the most surprising, hilarious and extraordinary scenarios imaginable.
This is the story of the most famous royal family in the world and the changing times that it has lived through.
A remarkable and awe-inspiring series about the extraordinary engineering projects that are shaping the world we live in.
Today we have lost the once-familiar skills all men had – the skills to build things, make things and mend things. With James at the helm its time for man to become useful and resourceful again…
This action-packed Walking with Dinosaurs special plunges the viewer into the midst of a prehistoric diving trip. Dive into the most dangerous seas of all time with our underwater expert as he meets the monstrous creatures that once dominated the depths – our modern day oceans are as dangerous as a goldfish bowl in comparison.
Celebrities trace their family trees.
Using a mixture of rare archive footage and dramatic 3D animated reconstructions, this series shows what happens when natural forces come into conflict with humans – with devastating results.