Streaming for the Holidays

Explore the fascinating factory processes and surprising history behind the UK's favourite festive treats. Gregg Wallace visits the world's largest mince pie factory, and discovers the challenge of producing 2,000 perfect pies every minute. Cherry Healey travels to South Wales, where factory workers make enough tinsel in a year to reach from their hometown to Hawaii. And Ruth Goodman finds out about the explosive history of Christmas crackers.

Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas returns, bringing comfort and joy by the sleigh-load. And this year she’s got herself a rather special elf helper, none other than Phil Spencer. The queen of craft has a new home and a new helper this year. Twinkling from a new grotto at Christmas HQ Kirstie shares enough crafty tips and tricks to turn any home into a wonderland. And revealing hidden crafting talents is Phil Spencer, who tries out everything from ice-sculpture...

Lucy Worsley recreates how Christmas was celebrated during the age of Henry VIII - eating, drinking, singing, dancing and partying like people did 500 years ago. She is getting into Tudor clothes and inside Tudor minds - discovering the forerunners of some of the Christmas customs we still enjoy today and exploring why other festive traditions fell out of favour. With the help of food historian Annie Gray, she prepares two royal feasts in the kitchens...

The notoriously secretive, family-owned super brand opens its doors. We go behind the scenes at the LEGO factory to see how staff gear up for the holiday season, create new lines for Christmas and manage the multi-language customer call center at the busiest time of year. We follow the construction of a spectacular Lego train in central London and meet the Addis family, who has built a huge LEGO sculpture in their Cambridgeshire living room every...

Based on the best -selling book by Michael Foreman, War Game is the award-winning animated story of three English boys who leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War One. On Christmas Day, as if by a miracle, a soccer match is started between the Germans and the English soldiers. This powerful, moving story for the whole family features the voice of Kate Winslet, among others.

This Christmas will change the Austin family forever. With a successful career, two adoring children and having married his high school sweetheart - Andrew Austin had everything. But a cancer diagnosis and past secrets quickly turn their lives upside down. Life no longer has the order and gentleness it once held. A family's struggle for peace brings hope at a most demanding moment. - Family overcomes medical challenge

A world-famous hotel that epitomizes the best of everything performs its annual transformation into a magical festive paradise in this enchanting piece of seasonal escapism. At the Plaza on New York’s Fifth Avenue, where suites cost up to {20}40,000 a night, staff is tasked with fulfilling every whim of their guests. Watch as they prepare a Christmas feast for up to 500, turn rooms into magical yuletide havens, and await the arrival of Father Christmas...

Today the magical festive HQ plays host to Kirstie's handmade gift competition. Four talented crafters race to create gorgeous handmade gifts against the clock, but only one will win the handmade trophy. From smellies to wood work, there's something for everyone. Kirstie's competition judges will be showing us how to create the gift of greenery that's all the rage, and we'll discover how a super stitcher creates festive kidswear. We'll also enjoy...

Kirstie’s back to help ensure that your festive season is sumptuous, seamless and most of all fun-filled. In this series, Kirstie travels the length and breadth of the UK on her own festive tour to celebrate and indulge in everything that makes a great British Christmas. She visits castles, Christmas markets and stately homes, and also drops into the studios of some of the country's most creative crafters.

Hop on Santa's sleigh for a ride of a lifetime! This holiday season, Santa and his trusty sidekick, Lear the reindeer, tell the magical classic tale of A Christmas Carol. Join all your Christmas favorite characters -- Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghost Of Christmas Past, in this retelling of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas classic.