キーワード Britain

近眼で運動音痴でありながら、オリンピックに憧れていたイギリス青年がスキージャンプに出会い、驚異的な負けん気で不可能を可能にしていく姿を描く。実在のイギリス人ジャンプ選手の半生を描いた、感動の実録ドラマ。製作をマシュー・ヴォーンが務めた。

1928年、イギリス北東部にある邸宅ダウントン。グランサム伯爵ロバート(ヒュー・ボネヴィル)らは、他界した三女の夫トム(アレン・リーチ)とモード・バッグショー(イメルダ・スタウントン)の娘との結婚を祝福していた。一方、長女メアリー(ミシェル・ドッカリー)は傷みが目立つ屋敷の修繕費に苦慮していたところ、屋敷で映画撮影をしたいとのオファーを受ける。さらにロバートは、母バイオレット(マギー・スミス)が南フランスの別荘を相続したことに驚き、そのいきさつに疑問を抱いた彼は家族と共に別荘へ向かう。

日系の英国作家K・イシグロのブッカー賞受賞作を基に、侯爵に忠実な執事として徹底的にストイックに生きた一人の男の悲哀を描いた物語。恋を知らぬ彼は安っぽい恋愛小説に慰めを得、それを女中頭に見つかり頬を赤らめる。互いに愛情を感じながらもその感情を抑えこんでしまう彼に、彼女は待ちきれず、彼の友人と結婚し町を去る。戦後、侯爵がこの世を去り、ようやく自由を感じた彼は女中頭を訪ねるのだが……。

西暦120年、名将アクイラ率いるローマ帝国最強の第九軍団の兵士5000名がカレドニアへと侵攻。しかし、同軍団は霧の中で忽然と姿を消し、再び故国へ戻ることはなかった…。それから20年後、アクイラの息子マーカスは、ローマ軍の立派な武将に成長したものの、戦闘中に重傷を負い、軍人生命を絶たれてしまう。絶望に沈む中、ある噂を聞き込んだ彼は、父と軍団の名誉を回復すべく、北の荒野へ向けて危険な旅に出発する。

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.

A number of the UK's most talented tattoo designers help clients transform their tattoo mistakes into works of art. It is estimated that one in six British people who opt to go under the needle later regret their decision. Outrageous artwork, inappropriate quotes or the name of an ex-partner can be chosen in haste but the results are permanent. The talented inkers meet desperate customers at a pop-up studio for their consultations. After the meeting, the client chooses whose design ideas they like best and the artist gets to work. When the session is over, the new tattoos are revealed.

8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid?

The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9,000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it - and how it shapes us. Hosted by a team of history and geography experts who investigate everything from life on a nuclear submarine; rebuilding the Titanic using computer images; the story behind the first Butlins holiday camp; and the birth of the Severn Bore. Discover the curious, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between the British and the seas.

Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.

A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.

Well-known faces don their aprons in this charity special. Who has got what it takes to go all the way and compete for the Great Sport Relief Bake Off crown?

A gripping eight-part series about a state-of-the-art law enforcement team whose unswerving mission is to hunt down some of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. The Interceptor delves into the adventures of a dedicated surveillance team known as the UNIT. Keeping their quarries under ultra-tight surveillance, they take us into the real world inhabited by the criminals of today. And it’s easy to recognize because it’s the same world the rest of us inhabit.

Architectural designer Charlie Luxton embarks on a nationwide journey to visit some of Britain's best homes by the sea and find out what makes the perfect coastal property.

A police detective finds herself at the centre of the most dangerous case of her life when she is seconded on to the investigation into the murder of a drugs trafficker. What nobody around her knows is that she is the missing witness that the police and the killer are searching for.

The story of the NHS in unprecedented times.

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.

While three politicians try to reform Britain’s brutal prison system, the tabloid press publish exposés of their scandalous private lives, leaving their careers in peril.

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

Documentary series revealing the inner workings of Britain's railways, introducing the track-workers, train guards, drivers, police officers and management teams determined to keep the country moving.

Actor Julie Walters rides upon the UK's most beautiful coastal railways.

Summer 1958… Wearied by the ingratitude of the French and by the mediocrity of their leaders, the Liberator of France decides to go on a well-deserved holiday… Charles, rather dreamy but imperturbable, is accompanied by the ever faithful Captain Lebornec. Lebornec – devoted if sometimes flummoxed by the general’s attitude – is the ideal holiday companion and confidant. They are accompanied by Charles’ wife Yvonne, his son, and Wehrmacht, a descendant of Hitler’s dog.

Exploring the hidden corners of the UK in search of the best the countryside has to offer.