They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

S1E2: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

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

The Somme: From Defeat to Victory

Drama-documentary which offers a new perspective on the most infamous battle of World War I, revealing how it was on the Somme that the Bri...

1: 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, ...

1: 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 ...

Dunkirk (2017)

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

S1E4: 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 Tibbe...

6: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious object...

Learning Zone | Britain's Great War

Jeremy Paxman traces the effects of the First World War on Britain. This was a total war which dragged in civilians as well as soldiers, ...

2: Stalemate | History File

The second section explores why the war wasn't over by Christmas 1914 and what life was like in the trenches.

1: The Approach of War | History File

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

4: Slaughter | 1914-1918

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele w...

S2E2: The Christmas Truce | Days That Shook the World

An account of Christmas Day in 1914, when German and British soldiers initiated a spontaneous truce across the frontline.

3: The Wrong War | Nazis: A Warning from History

A look at how Hitler found himself at war with Britain - a country whose achievements he admired - and allied to his ideolog...

The Indian Corps and trench warfare | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga discusses the Indian corp experiences of industrialised trench warfare.

Chinese Labour Corps | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Chinese labour corp in WW1.

1: 1918 Western Front | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

The Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.

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...

6: Making Germany Pay | History File

In this section we look at the traumatic years of the Weimar Republic and the years 1918 to 1929.

War without End | The First World War

The final part explores the war's last few months, the armistice and the Treaty of Versailles.