The Soviets: 03: Stalin Takes Control | History File

Stalin: Inside the Terror

Documentary that uncovers the private and family life of the Soviet dictator. Using reconstructions, it also attempts to discover Stalin's motives ...

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin over the 245 days that brought them to power. As the history unfolds, writers and historians deba...

How the Holocaust Began

Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and ...

09: Stalingrad | The World at War

After initial successes, Hitler's invasion of Russia is decisively stopped at Stalingrad.

Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones | Storyville

An investigation into the mysterious death of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who revealed the starvation deaths of millions in 1930s...

S02E03: The Home Front | Rise of the Nazis

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and...

Khrushchev - the Peasant Premier | Timewatch

In the centenary year of his birth, and using previously unseen home movies, this film explores the contradictions of the Ukrani...

05: Stalin | Walden on Villains

A look at Joseph Stalin , leader of Soviet Russia and the biggest mass murderer in history, who ordered the deaths of 22 million people but w...

07: After Stalin: 1953-1956 | Cold War

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet leader after the death of Stalin. Khrushchev rolls back a number of oppressive measures that existed ...

Growth of Stalin's terror | Stalin: Inside the Terror

After Lenin's death, Stalin seizes control of the funeral and uses the occasion to sideline Trotsky, consolidating his ...

Gulag

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film explores the Gulag lega...

Mr Jones

In 1933, suspicious of Russia's miraculous resurgence under Stalin, Gareth Jones escapes Moscow's decadence and discovers Ukraine's desperation. However, it is not ...

The Soviets: 05: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

01: High Hopes | War of the Century

A four-part breakdown of the reasons behind, and course of, the bloody war between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, which resu...

01: Stalin and the Modernisation of Russia | Twentieth Century History

A schools feature about the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, who turned Russia into an industrial powerh...

03: Learning to Win | War of the Century

An examination of the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most horrific engagements in the history of warfare where, in 1942, the exhau...

S02E02: Stalingrad | Rise of the Nazis

The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has me...

World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel

Travelling to Russian battlefields and using original telegrams and official documents, David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in t...

02: Spiral of Terror | War of the Century

First-hand testimony recalls the bloodshed of the Battle for Moscow, where many Soviet citizens perished as a result of their own l...

04: Vengeance | War of the Century

Summer 1944: the seeds of Soviet victory are sown when Germany suffers huge casualties against Stalin's troops in Byelorussia. When, in Ap...