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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 ...

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...

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...

The Soviets: 03: Stalin Takes Control | History File

This programmeramme covers Stalin.

The Soviets: 04: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

09: Stalingrad | The World at War

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

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...

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...

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

This programme looks at the Cold War.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Stalin's Back | This World

Reporter John Sweeney travels more than 5000 miles through the old Soviet Union, from Stalin's birthplace in Georgia to a former labour camp in Ru...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Who Killed Stalin? | Timewatch

Russia's brutal dictator fell into a coma in 1953. Many wanted him dead. So who was responsible? Simon Sebag Montefiore visits Moscow to meet ...