Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

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...

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 ...

1: The Fall of Tsarism | History File

This programme at fall of Tsarism.

S1E5: The Murder of the Romanovs | Days That Shook the World

This program examines events marking the beginning and end of communism in Eastern Europe, including the executi...

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: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

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

3: Stalin Takes Control | History File

This programmeramme covers Stalin.

3: The Road to Revolution | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy investigates how the Romanov family's grip on Russia unravelled in their final century...

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 ...

Cold War

Both the United States and the Soviet Union drifted apart after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War and the Paris Peace Conference. Diplomatic and...

Lenin and Tsar Nicholas | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lenin was the antidote to the Romanov rule and in 1917, his Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Pal...

3: 1917: Red Flag | People's Century

The October Revolution brings forth a new Marxist Leninist society in what becomes the Soviet Union. Its people, now freed from feudal e...

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

7: 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 u...

April Crisis | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

An investigation of the April Crisis and Lenin's speech in Petrograd.

S2E9: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World

This program focuses on the shooting down of the US U-2 spy plane in 1960.

The Looking Glass War | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched aga...

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

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

2: Hungary 1956 | History File

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

Moscow 1980: The Cold War Olympics

Steve Cram recalls how the Moscow Olympics of 1980 came to symbolise the intensity of the Cold War. As politics and sport collided head on...