Joe Frazier takes British filmmaker, John Dower, back to the most hyped boxing match in history. Frazier, now 63, takes British filmmaker, John Dower, back 33 years to the most hyped boxing match in history, and beyond. Frazier has never forgiven Ali for the racial taunting leading up to the fight in which he called Frazier 'gorilla' and 'uncle Tom' - the worst possible insult for a fellow black man.

This feature-length documentary ventures beyond the familiar British account of Remembrance Day to explore how the other side, the Germans, plunged from near victory to total defeat in a few months in 1918. Against the backdrop of the Great War's brutal endgame, brought alive by first-hand testimonies and stark battlefield locations, the film unravels the mental collapse of Germany's supreme commander, Erich Ludendorff, as he finally faces up to the true costs of total war.

Jimmy Carter talks on television for the first time about the episode that, more than any other, led American voters to eject him from the presidency: Iran's seizure of the US embassy in Tehran. Other contributors include Vice President Walter Mondale, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and top Iranians, Ebrahim Yazdi (Foreign Minister), Sadeq Tabatabai (negotiator with the US) and Mohsen Rafiqdoust (founder of the Revolutionary Guard).

The first programme looks at milk. The changing ways in which it was distributed and sold are captured in the home movies of two dairy farmers from the South of England – Nick Gosling, whose mother filmed life on the farm from the 1950s through to the end of the century, and Will Hosford, whose father has home movies of their lives in farming stretching back to the 1930s.

"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true," claimed Tolstoy, and veteran documentarian John Walker takes us on an epic historical adventure that involves cannibalism, a vengeful woman and an historical cover-up by British authorities that credited the wrong man with the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Stunningly cinematic, the film follows a trail from London to the Orkney Islands to Nunavut, elegantly slipping between past and present, drama and documentary, and observational and self-reflexive cinema.

1989 was a year of revolution; it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. This series reveals what life was like for ordinary people living under communism. What emerges is a picture that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political repression to reveal an astonishingly rich tapestry of experience. The series evokes the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight. Now, with the help of rarely seen archive, those who lived through those extraordinary times tell their stories of life behind the Iron Curtain.

The RAF sprang to life during the First World War. Now, at the lively old age of 90, the RAF fights the Taliban in the War on Terror. Seen through the eyes of those who fought - and are about to fight - at the sharp end of the RAF's toughest battles, this film reveals the joys flying can bring as well as the destructive realities of air war.

Henry VIII is the only king instantly recognisable by his silhouette. In this 4-part series to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry’s accession, Tudor historian David Starkey goes back to the original sources in search of the man behind the historical myth. Using the words of Henry and contemporaries, and featuring music based on Henry’s own compositions, the series is an intimate portrait of power, the story of how youthful promise became unbridled tyranny.