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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

What Happened at Chernobyl | What Happened at..?

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what w...

S01E05: 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 execu...

The Cold War: 02: Hungary 1956 | History File

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

01: Comrades: 1917-1945 | 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 ...

Bloody Sunday | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

In 1905, 150,000 workers protested at the winter palace and after a year of revolution, Nicholas II ins...

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | Surviving Disaster

In April 1986 a blast at a Soviet nuclear plant emits 400 times more radiation than the bomb at Hiroshima-the UN claims it ha...

Learning Zone | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

A version made specially for schools of the BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War. Presented by Dominic Sandbrook.

03: 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 ...

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...

The Soviets: 01: The Fall of Tsarism | History File

This programme at fall of Tsarism.

03: 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 centur...

S02E09: 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.

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...

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 ...

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

Lucy describes Tsar Nicholas II's rise to power and how his faith and attention to detail distracted...