S3E8: The Road To Revolution: The Execution of Ceaușescu | Days That Shook the World

1: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War

Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.

12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History

The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...

14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War

Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...

3: Hell Come to Earth (January 1964-December 1965) | The Vietnam War

With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.

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...

16: Détente: 1969-1975

Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearful of a US-C...

4: 1951 Korea | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fighti...

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

Edward Behr presents a personal profile on the rise and fall from power of the Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu.

8: A Sea of Fire (April 1969-May 1970) | The Vietnam War

With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinka...

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...

15: 1951: Asia Rising | People's Century

Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity and conf...

5: 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 net...

9: Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973) | The Vietnam War

Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.

1: Lyndon Johnson's War | Wheeler on America

A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the liberal r...

10: The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward) | The Vietnam War

While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.

20: Soldiers of God: 1975-1988 | Cold War

Nur Mohammad Taraki comes to power in Afghanistan and attempts to modernise the country on Marxist-Leninist lines, provoking a rebe...

5: Korea: 1949-1953 | Cold War

Korea after the Second World War was occupied by both the Soviets and the Americans, who respectively installed Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee a...

6: Things Fall Apart (January 1968-June 1968) | The Vietnam War

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.