20th Century World: 01: The effects of the Great War | History File

Dunkirk (2017)

Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops find themselves in an impossible situation. Christopher Nolan's epic wartime action thriller.

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the ...

Kate Adie's Women of World War One

Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

Documentary about the pioneering project, in 1945, to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Winderm...

06: Britannia at Bay | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The series concludes with an account of Britain during the Second World War, starting with the events at Du...

Britain and the Start of WW1 | Learning Zone

Dan Snow recreates a map of Europe on the beach to explain how Britain became involved in World War I.

Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government's reliance ...

01: London | Blitz Cities

EastEnders star Shane Richie travels around his home city of London to explore the history of the Blitz there.

05: 1940s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

In their final decade of time travel, the Robshaws enter the 1940s and experience a decade overshadowed by war and entirely fuell...

05: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.

Episode 2 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis family discover how life has changed for northern working class families. The postwar years see the family on rations with no frid...

02: Road to War | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

The country basks in a hot Edwardian summer, but the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo presages world war.

Through Hell For Hitler | Timewatch

Dramatized documentary following the life of Nazi soldier Henry Metelmann. As a soldier fighting in Kursk and Stalingrad, he eventually b...

04: Cardiff | Blitz Cities

John Humphrys returns to south Wales to discover more about the effect of the Blitz on Cardiff and Swansea.

An evacuee's adventure | Learning Zone

Betty lived in Cardiff during the war and was evacuated to Aberdare. With her family friend, Anesha, she retraces the journey and desc...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis family travel back in time to reveal how life has changed for northern working-class families over the past 100 years. Their exper...

Episode 1 | D-Day: The Last Heroes

In the first of a two-part series, historian Dan Snow examines how two years of meticulous planning, espionage and the analysis of million...

01: 1900s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

The Robshaw family travel back in time to the turn of the 20th century, to discover how the food we ate and the way we ate it hel...

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

The Allies are in retreat, but the Navy can only pick up a few soldiers and Churchill is advised to make peace to save the rest.

01: The Evacuees | Landmarks

Former evacuees reminisce and pupils of St Marks School reinact evacuation day and visit a war memorial, including an explanation of the war's h...