From the makers of Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, this landmark documentary follows the biggest excavation of Pompeii in a generation. With exclusive access to the present-day archaeological and forensic investigation, it also reveals new discoveries of what happened to named survivors, tracing their modern-day descendants living in Italy through an unprecedented genetic portrait of Pompeii.

Told through cinematically filmed stories of discovery, with a compelling cast of archaeologists and experts, the series reveals a wealth of buried secrets and unsolved mysteries that are waiting to be discovered beneath the volcanic ash.

Coming in 2025, a new one-hour special will return to the world-famous archaeological site to exclusively capture the archaeologists at work as a series of extraordinary new finds come to light.

Duration 1 x 1 hr

Lion TV for the BBC, UK, in association with Arte, France, PBS, US and All3Media International

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In April 1945, Sgt. Mike Lewis and Sgt. Bill Lawrie, from the British Army’ s Film and Photographic Unit, stumbled upon what they were told is a typhus hospital, about 25km from a small town called Celle in Northern Germany, by the name of Bergen-Belsen. Alongside the British Army’ s liberating forces, the full horrors of what was going on inside the camp were revealed to them – and through their footage to the world – for the first time.

By immersing audiences in their eyewitness accounts through the footage they shot, married with audio interviews( recorded by the Imperial War Museum in the 1980s) describing their experiences in detail, the film becomes an intimate and personal record of two ordinary men’ s defining experience of the war – and, through them, of the profound trauma and tragedy of the Holocaust.

Duration 1 x 40 mins

A Lightbox production in association with Neal Street Productions and the Imperial War Museum for the BBC, UK

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