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- StarsAnton LesserSimon Russell BealeTom GeorgesonA mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.
- StarsMark RylanceDamian LewisClaire FoyAfter the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
- StarsAneurin BarnardRebecca FergusonAmanda HaleThree different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th-century England.
- StarsJodie ComerRebecca BensonJacob Collins-LevyBased on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name, the story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII.
- StarsGreg KinnearBarry PepperKatie HolmesThe triumphs and tragedies of the most popular political family in American history.
- StarsJohn DuttineFrank MiddlemassAlan MacNaughtanDavid Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but the avuncular headmaster has faith in him. David, although well educated, is just a humble lad from the Welsh valleys at heart and has to fit himself and his ideas into the heart of the English establishment.
- StarsGeraldine ChaplinChristopher GuardJohn ShrapnelA young Englishman becomes convinced that his friend and guardian has been murdered by his mysterious second wife.
- StarsBen CrossClare HigginsGareth ThomasA young idealistic doctor, Andrew Mason, tries to improve the abysmal health conditions in a small Welsh mining town in the 1930s, but his ambitions sidetrack him.
- StarsWendy HillerHarry AndrewsMaurice DenhamAfter decades as a politician's wife, 85-year-old Lady Slane retires to a cottage after her husband dies. Struggling to rediscover her identity, she contends with intrusive family members.
- StarsMel MartinChristopher BlakeSherrie HewsonA coming-of-age story perceived from the acts and feelings of Edward Richardson, a junior journalist who falls deeply in love with the enchanting and reckless Lydia Aspen, heiress of the welthy but on-decline Aspen family.
- StarsCheryl CampbellEmrys JamesJane WenhamVera Brittain's world falls to pieces around her as, one by one, the young men of her circle are caught up in the Great War.
- StarsNigel HaversGlyn HoustonPrunella RansomeInvalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford estate in Devon. He treats tenant farmers fairly, earning respect as the new "Squire", unlike his predecessor.
- StarsStanley BakerSiân PhillipsNerys HughesThe mini-series is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys, through the eyes of one of the sons, Huw Morgan.
- StarsShaughan SeymourPaul HastingsEdward HardwickeAs World War II looms in Europe, an ambitious young English lawyer embarks on his tempestuous career, and even stormier romantic life.
- StarsColin FirthJohn CastleGillian BevanIn 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Travelling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know romance, politics, and high adventure. The next year, in a true and terrifying vanishing act, the guns of August blast away that world forever.
- StarsEmma ThompsonKenneth BranaghCharles KayA British couple living in Romania try to survive as Europe is engulfed in World War II.
- StarsMartin ShawSverre Anker OusdalStephen MooreBased on the book 'Scott and Amundsen' by Roland Huntford, "The Last Place on Earth" is an exploration of the rivalry between Captain Robert F. Scott and Ronald Amundsen as they attempt to reach the South Pole.
- StarsAnnette CrosbiePaul ShelleyPeter EganA clergyman, famous for his support of left-wing causes, dies, and surprises his family by leaving a great deal of money to a Conservative Member of Parliament. Why?
- StarsPaul DanoJames NortonLily JamesAs the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.
- StarsDaniela Denby-AsheRichard ArmitageTim Pigott-SmithNorth and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
- StarsPhilip GlenisterPeter GinnRuth GoodmanHistorians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn bring back to life the golden age of steam, exploring how Victorian railways helped to shape modern Britain.
- StarsOwen TealeRuth GoodmanPeter GinnThe series follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate the everyday farm life from the age of the Stuarts; they wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s.
- DirectorChris MitchellStarsDominic FrisbyMarc MeltonvilleRuth GoodmanA group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago, including the use of period clothes, recipes from the era, food sourced from the land and the absence of modern conveniences.
- StarsRuth GoodmanPeter GinnTom PinfoldHistorian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a castle.
- StarsStephen NoonanNick BarberRuth GoodmanLife in a 19th-century pharmacy is re-created in this four-part documentary. Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and doctorate student Tom Quick discover how people attempted to cure common ailments beginning at the time of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, when remedies such as leeches, oil of earthworm and opium potions were commonly used.