A BBC dramatisation of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), who arrives at Middlemarch hospital full of idealism and determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide) and then finds herself trapped in an ill-fated marriage; and Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a young lad who awakens Dorothea's repressed passion and thereby changes the course of her life.

Thomas Imbach directs this drama starring Camille Rutherford as the infamous Mary Queen of Scots. The film, also starring Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard and Edward Hogg, follows Mary's story as she returns to her native Scotland from France where she had grown up and married her first husband. Returning as a widow, Mary marries her first cousin who is, not long after, found murdered. Mary then marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (Biggerstaff), but by doing so condemns herself to a lifetime of criticism and reproval, even from her cousin Elizabeth I with whom she later seeks solace.

All eight two-part episodes from series 7 and 8 of the BBC crime series starring Amanda Burton as pathologist Dr Sam Ryan. Dr Ryan is a committed forensic specialist whose passion for justice often leads her to conduct her own inquiries outside the lab. Cases in this volume include a suspected terrorist bomb that turns out to be a cover-up for a politician's sex scandal, a murderer who sends Sam clinical photographs of his victims, the death of a black athlete and his agent and an investigation into the controversial work of a high-profile forensic pathologist. Episodes are: 'Answering Fire', 'Fatal Error', 'Running on Empty', 'Beyond Guilt', 'A Time to Heal', 'Death by Water', 'Nowhere Fast' and 'Body 21'.

Dan Snow presents this three-part BBC documentary in which he examines events from the year 1066 which changed the course of British and European history. Alongside dramatic reconstructions, Snow explores the power struggle between the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans as Norwegian King Harald Hardrada (Clive Russell), King Harold Godwinson of England (Adam James) and William of Normandy (Ed Stoppard) contest the English throne, before the decisive Battle of Hastings on October 14th 1066.

Crime drama directed by Ronnie Thompson and starring Matthew Goode, Joely Richardson and Stephen Moyer. Four elderly men have set their sights on the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and intend to carry out a lucrative robbery. With the possibility of making off with £200 million, these old timers could be about to make history as well as a killing.

It is 922 AD. Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan (Antonio Banderas) is an Arab ambassador travelling through Northern Europe with his mentor Melchisidek (Omar Sharif). They chance upon a band of Vikings, who are licking their wounds after an attack by mysterious creatures. A fortune teller prophecies that unless the Vikings can find a 13th warrior then they are doomed to destruction. This warrior must be an outsider, and soon Ahmed is enlisted to join the clan, but further attacks rapidly place the band under mortal threat.