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BBC Select is a BBC streaming service featuring hundreds of critically-acclaimed documentaries. From politics and culture to history and travel, you’ll find many documentaries from the BBC and beyond.

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History, culture, travel, true crime, politics and more. Subscribe to BBC Select and stream BBC documentary series in the United States and experience a BBC channel for acclaimed shows from award-winning filmmakers. What to watch on BBC Select

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Learn MoreWatch China: A New World Order on BBC Select

China: A New World Order

President Xi Jinping’s extraordinary first years ruling China. Watch the first full episode of China: A New World Order

Learn MoreStream The Six Queens of Henry VIII on BBC Select

The Six Queens of Henry VIII

Rediscover the Queens who shaped a King & his legacy in The Six Queens of Henry VIII, BBC’s new look at the King’s infamous wives.

Learn MoreStream Auschwitz - The Nazis and the Final Solution on BBC Select

Auschwitz: Nazis & The Final Solution

Mass-murder on an unimaginable scale. A history of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Learn MoreStream Queen Victoria and her Nine Children on BBC Select

Queen Victoria and her Nine Children

Devastated by her husband’s death Queen Victoria starts to meddle in her children’s lives.

Learn MoreStream House of Maxwell on BBC Select

House of Maxwell

How the Maxwells, from father Robert to daughter Ghislaine, became embroiled in scandal.

Learn MoreStream American History's Biggest Fibs on BBC Select

American History’s Biggest Fibs

American history is fake, fact? Historian Lucy Worlsey delves deeper into US mythology.

Learn MoreStream Extraordinary Places to Eat on BBC Select

Extraordinary Places to Eat

They’re the experts who know food like no one else. These are the restaurants they love.

Learn MoreStream Avicii - True Stories

Avicii: True Stories

The tragic story of superstar DJ Avicii told in his own words and by those closest to him.

Learn MoreWatch Rise of the Nazis documentary on BBC Select

Rise of the Nazis

How did Hitler seize and retain power in Germany?

Learn MoreWatch Ancient Worlds on BBC Select

Ancient Worlds

Travel on an epic quest through the birth of civilization and the development of humanity.

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A Royal Guide to…

A revealing look into some of the more peculiar protocols followed by the Royal Family.

Learn MoreStream House of Maxwell on BBC Select

House of Maxwell

How the Maxwells, from father Robert to daughter Ghislaine, became embroiled in scandal.

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