Episode 3 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WWI

Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Arthur Roberts - one of thousands of black soldiers who fought in WWI. His diary provides a unique...

01: The Dreadnoughts of Scapa Flow | War at Sea: Scotland's Story

First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of the N...

Shot at Dawn | Frontline Scotland

Documentary about the campaign to pardon the names of First World War deserters.

02: The Battle of the U-Boats | War at Sea: Scotland's Story

David Hayman explores Germany's World War One U-boat threat and the fascinating and dastardly ploys Britain used...

Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...

S01E02: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

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

Dunkirk (2017)

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

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...

Hiroshima

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

05: 1968 Vietnam | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a ne...

The Cold War: 01: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

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

S01E09: Chernobyl | Days That Shook the World

Two days highlight the benefits and terrors of atomic power: Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown on April 26, 1986.

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 ...

01: 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,...

The Cold War: 04: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise o...

The First World War: 01: The Approach of War | History File

The first section asks who was to blame for the war.

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...

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.

11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War

After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...