Red Clydeside | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

S1E2: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

How the duke's death led to the start of the First World War.

The Somme: From Defeat to Victory

Drama-documentary which offers a new perspective on the most infamous battle of World War I, revealing how it was on the Somme that the Bri...

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 ...

S1E4: Hiroshima | Days That Shook the World

Documentary recalling 6 August 1945, when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, with testimony from American colonel Paul Tibbe...

S2E2: The Christmas Truce | Days That Shook the World

An account of Christmas Day in 1914, when German and British soldiers initiated a spontaneous truce across the frontline.

Dunkirk (2017)

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

1: Advance Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious but nearly bankrupt, beginning a battle ...

5: Making Peace | History File

The Treaty of Versailles has been widely criticised and many believe the Second World War was due to its failure. In this section we explore w...

8: Their Finest Hour | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow take an in-depth look at the battles that shaped our nation. The Battle of Britain was the pivotal air battle o...

1: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War

Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.

2: The War Machine | Britain's Great War

With the country unprepared for war, the whole population is enlisted to turn Britain into a war machine.

6: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious object...

1: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian, ...

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.

6: Why Appeasement? | Twentieth Century History

A look back at at the inter war years and the events leading up to the Second World War. The programme also examines the dipl...

3: The Home Front | History File

The First World War was a total war. Nobody escaped, even the women and children at home. In this third section we look at how the lives of ...

1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...

4: Berlin: 1948-1949 | Cold War

By 1947, the United States placed as a high priority the revival of the German economy, an approach opposed by the Soviet Union. After the in...

5: Korea: 1949-1953 | Cold War

Korea after the Second World War was occupied by both the Soviets and the Americans, who respectively installed Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee a...

The Peacemakers

Historian Margaret MacMillan revisits the scene of the Versailles Treaty and tries to establish whether it was a short-sighted settlement - as economist John...