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Planet eStream

A collection of programmes and video clips are available online via Planet eStream. You can access Planet eStream from college, home or your mobile device.

A selection of useful programmes for your course are available below, but there are many more available when you explore Planet eStream.

Planet eStream programmes

Suffragette Movie

Suffragette Movie

(2015) Drama exploring the increasingly defiant campaign by British women for equality and the right to vote in the years before WWI.

Suffragettes - Battling for Votes

Suffragettes: Battling for Votes

A hundred years ago the Suffragettes took their fight for votes to Parliament. Rosalyn Ball looks back at the Suffragettes' campaign.

Suffragettes Forever !

Suffragettes Forever !

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery exploring the origins of the suffragette movement

Claire Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

Claire Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette

Clare Balding examines the story of Emily Davison and the Suffragette movement

Empire of the Tsars

Empire of the Tsars

Lucy examines the reign of Catherine the Great and and the traumatic conflict with Napoleonic France

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

The story of a group of working-class women conducting a dangerous campaign for the vote

Russia: Land of the Tsars - 1/4

Russia: Land of the Tsars - 1/4

Russia's all-powerful royalty, beginning with the country's first Tsar, Ivan the Terrible.

20th Century Battlefields - 1/8 (Western Front)

20th Century Battlefields - 1/8 (Western Front)

 The story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens in Northern France.

The Nazis: A Warning from History - 1/6

The Nazis: A Warning from History - 1/6

Series examining how Hitler came to power. 

Titanic: The Mission

Titanic: The Mission

Series of programmes exploring different aspects of the famous ship

Britain's forgotten slave owners

Britain’s forgotten slave owners

Historian David Olusoga uncovers the untold stories of Britain's slave owners.