Darkest Hour (2017)

S01E04: 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 Tib...

Dunkirk (2017)

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

Hiroshima

Dramatic reconstruction of the devastating impact of the first atomic bomb to be used against people on the citizens of Hiroshima.

01: 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...

08: 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 ...

S02E03: Attack on Pearl Harbor | Days That Shook the World

The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which changed world history.

08: Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima | Twentieth Century History

On 7th December 1941, Japanese planes bombed the US fleet at Pearl Harbour. Programme looks at what caused Japan t...

What Happened at Hiroshima | What Happened at..?

On the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jordan Dunbar hears from the only people who have ever ex...

05: The Road to Treblinka | Nazis: A Warning from History

Documentary showing how the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 was a crucial catalyst for the radicalis...

20: Genocide | The World at War

This edition recounts Himmler's plans to realise Hitler's vision of a pure Aryan Germany. Narrated by Laurence Olivier.

The Era of the Second World War: 04: Living Under Axis Rule | History File

This programme looks at the impact of the war on the civilians in different countries and the cho...

The Era of the Second World War: 03: The Home Front | History File

The Home Front examines the extent of the changes bought about by the strains and dangers of bombing, fami...

06: 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 dip...

S03E07: The Battle of Midway | Days That Shook the World

In a span of four minutes at the Battle of Midway, American carrier pilots destroyed Japan's best ships, killed 4,00...

The Era of the Second World War: 01: The Drift to War | History File

A schools programme providing an analysis of the major causes of the Second World War.

03: 1942 Stalingrad | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow explain about one of the most epic battles of World War II and describe how the tactic...

The Era of the Second World War: 02: Battle On All Fronts | History File

This programme looks at some contrasting and representative campaigns in great depth, including the...

S01E04: World War Two | Turn Back Time

The shopkeepers and their customers are plunged into World War Two, and for the first time profit isn't everything.

German youth | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Hitler targeted the German youth, he wanted to indoctrinate them with Nazi ideology as early as possible.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

After surviving the carnage of D-Day, Captain Miller is ordered into heavily contested territory to find and return a single soldier. The mission ...