Conflict and Warfare

05: 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 ne...

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...

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

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

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

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

07: Chasing Ghosts (June 1968-May 1969) | The Vietnam War

Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.

23: 1975: War of the Flea | People's Century

While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpower riva...

03: 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.

02: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) | The Vietnam War

President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocrati...

History | GCSE Bitesize Revision

This GCSE Bitesize special tells the story of Modern History using archive film and action figures, and shows the horror of medieval surgery...

Vietnam War | Panorama

Panorama looks at the Vietnam War. Includes an investigation into the attitudes of US citizens to the war and coverage of Sennator Robert Kennedy's sp...

Vietnam: Journal of a War | Panorama

Panorama reports on the Vietnam War.

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

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

Harold Wilson Interview | Panorama

Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...

01: 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 ...

04: Doubt (January 1966-June 1967) | The Vietnam War

Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.

Lyndon Johnson's War | Wheeler on America

(1/5) Charles Wheeler looks at how the Vietnam War destroyed President Johnson, and a conspiracy by the Nixon presidential campaign.

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

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

08: 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 unthink...

05: This is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967) | The Vietnam War

American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes.

S09E01: Ophans Of The Airlift | Secret History

Documentary looking at the airlift of over one hundred orphans from Saigon in 1975, orchestrated by the editor of the Daily Ma...

S01E02: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

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

S01E04: 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 Tib...

Dunkirk (2017)

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

05: 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 ne...

Hiroshima

Dramatic reconstruction of the devastating impact of the first atomic bomb to be used against people on the citizens of Hiroshima.

01: 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...

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...

The First World War: 01: The Approach of War | History File

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

08: Their Finest Hour | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow take an in-depth look at the battles that shaped our nation. The Battle of Britain was the pivotal air battle ...

S02E03: Attack on Pearl Harbor | Days That Shook the World

The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which changed world history.

Kate Adie's Women of World War One

Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.

S01E09: Chernobyl | Days That Shook the World

Two days highlight the benefits and terrors of atomic power: Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown on April 26, 1986.

06: 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 objec...

00: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner wh...

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...

The First World War: 06: Making Germany Pay | History File

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

08: Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima | Twentieth Century History

On 7th December 1941, Japanese planes bombed the US fleet at Pearl Harbour. Programme looks at what caused Japan t...

01: 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,...

20: Genocide | The World at War

This edition recounts Himmler's plans to realise Hitler's vision of a pure Aryan Germany. Narrated by Laurence Olivier.

01: War Comes to Britain | Britain's Great War

Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode focu...

S01E02: 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...

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the ...

1917 (2019)

During the First World War, two soldiers are ordered across no-man's-land and deep into enemy territory to deliver a message. If they fail, an entire battalion, ...

The First World War: 01: The Approach of War | History File

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

06: 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 objec...

00: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner wh...

Episode 1 | The Passing Bells

At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents to sign up. But their enthusiasm is tested when they...

01: The First Day | Our World War

Drama revealing real experiences of British soldiers in the First World War. In August 1914, the Royal Fusiliers reach the town of Mons in ...

01: 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,...

The First World War: 06: Making Germany Pay | History File

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

01: War Comes to Britain | Britain's Great War

Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode focu...

A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WWI

Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Arthur Roberts - one of thousands of black soldiers who fought in WWI. His diary provides a unique...

The First World War: 03: The Home Front | History File

The First World War was a total war. Nobody escaped, even the women and children at home. In this third section we loo...

What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?

Documentary telling the story of how half a million children lost their fathers in WW1. Some of the sons and daughters tell of the d...

The First World War: 02: Stalemate | History File

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

02: Pals | Our World War

A soldier in the Manchester Pals regiment finds himself fighting both the Germans and a system that requires him to execute one of his pals.

02: Into the Abyss | Royal Cousins at War

The roles played by cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England in the desperate,...

The Peacemakers

Historian Margaret MacMillan revisits the scene of the Versailles Treaty and tries to establish whether it was a short-sighted settlement - as economist John...

Episode 1 | The Trench (2002)

Fear, fatigue and cold daily life in a First World War trench is relived in this three-part series. Based on diaries kept by the 10th Battalion...

S01E13: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War | Horrible Histories

Florence Nightingale arrives at a Crimean hospital clearly in need of her help.

Episode 3 | Napoleon

Andrew Roberts charts the fall of Napoleon, a defining moment in global history. Grave military misjudgements led to his defeat at Waterloo and exile to...

01: Napoleon | Heroes and Villains

Drama-documentary starring Tom Burke and Rob Brydon telling how Napoleon Bonaparte rose from being a penniless soldier to create an empire...

S02E02: George IV and the Regency | Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley finds the fibs behind the facade of Georgian elegance and discovers how the s...

S01E13: Burke & Hare (Song) | Horrible Histories

This song explains the story of William Burke & William Hare, the two notorious murderers who sold their victims to Doctor R...

Nelson's Trafalgar

The real story of the battle of Trafalgar and its flawed hero Nelson. How did the British win it? What did it achieve? Why has Nelson become a national mo...

03: Rapid Fire | Sword, Musket & Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History

In the final episode, Dr Sam Willis looks at the drive to develop ever more precise weapons on the batt...

05: Nelson | Great Britons (2002)

Historian Lucy Moore makes the case for Horatio Nelson, Britain's most successful naval leader, who died in 1805 while saving the country f...

02: Horatio Nelson | Great Britons (1990)

Historian David Howarth reviews the life of Admiral Nelson, concluding that Nelson was a legend among his sailors in his own lifeti...

Episode 1 | Napoleon

From lowly Corsican Army officer to first consul of France, this episode charts the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte to leader of the French nation in the lat...

S03E05: Survival | Monarchy By David Starkey

Weathering the anti-royalist storm breaking on the continent, Great Britain stands strong against the military might of Napoleon...

S01E02: Waterloo | War Walks

Wellington's victory against Napoleon in 1815 ended the most powerful European empire since the Romans. Professor Holmes visits the farms and fi...

Richard III: The King in the Car Park

Was a skeleton found under a Leicester car park last September really Richard III? With exclusive access to the investigating team, thi...

S01E03: Princes in the Tower | Lucy Worsley Investigates

What really happened to the princes in the tower? Lucy Worsley uncovers the story of the two boys whose disappearanc...

03: Richard III | Historyonics

Nick Knowles tries to discover whether Richard III was as dastardly as history records. He was ruthless and ambitious - but was he really resp...

S02E02: Bosworth | War Walks

Professor Richard Holmes travels to historic British sites. He visits the scene of Henry Tudor's victory over King Richard III, which changed th...

Richard III: The Princes in the Tower

Did Richard III really kill his nephews so that he could be king? A stellar cast of experts including David Starkey and Philippa Gregor...

03: The Death of Kings | The Plantagenets

In the last century of their rule, four Plantagenet kings are deposed and murdered.

01: Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story | Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

Series charting the age of the outlaw begins with the arrival of a new br...

S01E03: Warwick | Secrets of Great British Castles

In this episode, Dan explores Warwick Castle whose walls echo with tales of betrayal, bloodshed, murder and financial ruin.

03: The Battle of Wales | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow revisit the battles that shaped our nation. They tell the story of when the Welsh, led by rebel leader Owain...

S01E01: Agincourt | War Walks

A journey through six centuries of warfare. Military historian Professor Richard Holmes analyses the Battle of Agincourt.

02: The Big Bang | Sword, Musket & Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History

Sam Willis on the history of weapons that have shaped Britain. He charts the impact of gunpowder on t...

S04E09: Agincourt: The Movie | Horrible Histories

Unexpected snags are also the order of the day for the French side in "Agincourt: The Movie" (movie trailer).

Richard III: The New Evidence

This new documentary explores the results of scientific tests of Richard III's remains. Would his spinal deformity have prevented him from lead...

Episode 1 | The Real White Queen and Her Rivals

Philippa Gregory reveals the stories of three women at the heart of the Wars of the Roses - the 'White Queen' Elizabeth Woodv...

01: Cut & Thrust | Sword, Musket & Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History

Sam Willis traces the history of the weapons that have shaped Britain. He gets a lesson in swordsmans...

05: The Knight | Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Knights were more interested in the fine art of killing people and profiting from war than romantic notions of chivalry.

Episode 2 | The Real White Queen and Her Rivals

Philippa Gregory tells the interweaving stories of the women who were decisive figures in the Wars of the Roses - Elizabeth W...

S02E01: Hastings | War Walks

Professor Richard Holmes walks and rides over the Hastings battlefield that marks a turning point in British history, handling the weapons and e...

05: 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 ne...

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...

S01E05: The Fall of the Berlin Wall | Days That Shook the World

Exploring the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 from the perspective of a Checkpoint Charlie Stasi guard comman...

S01E09: Chernobyl | Days That Shook the World

Two days highlight the benefits and terrors of atomic power: Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown on April 26, 1986.

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...

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech in 1946 | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Churchill announced the allied victory in his VE Day speech but was then defeated in the 194...

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...

09: The Wall: 1958-1963 | Cold War

West Germany, and West Berlin, become more affluent, prompting a surge of East Germans to cross the borders in Berlin, kept open under the...

BalloonBallon (2018)

The Strelzyk family attempt to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. In German with English subtitles.

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

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

05: 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 ...

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.

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...

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...

01: Red Dawn | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War. He looks at the first chilling years of the conflict, when the opposing ideo...

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

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

02: Iron Curtain: 1945-1947 | Cold War

The wartime allies demobilise - the United States enjoys its economic strength and resurgence while Britain and the rest of Europe is ...

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 ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis | Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cuban Missile Crisis looking at the relationship between Present Kennedy and Prime M...

The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall

Documentary exploring the story of the Berlin Wall, uncovering a world of flawed heroes and heroic villains, compromised victories and sad...

01: It Wasn't Like a Movie Anymore | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

A time of relative peace in Northern Ireland escalates to full-blown conflict. When tensions betwee...

Episode 1 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

Northern Ireland's leading team of investigative journalists reveal important new discoveries about the outbreak of t...

The Day the Troubles Began

Documentary looking back at the historic Civil Rights march in Derry that took place on October 5th, 1968. Featuring interviews with many of those...

Bloody Sunday: Fifty Years On

Fifty years ago this month, paratroopers shot dead 13 innocent civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland. It is forever known as Bloody Sunday....

03: Enemies | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade uni...

Belfast (2021)

Young Buddy's happy home life is rocked by the eruption of the Troubles, on top of his concerns about ailing grandparents, a crush on a girl at school, and do...

04: The Age of Union | Story of Ireland

In this edition he reveals how Ireland became part of the UK for the first time following the 1801 Act of Union. Presented by Fergal ...

S02E04: 1998 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode focuses on 1998: the year when the peace process comes to fruition with the Good Friday Agreement but the DUP are set a...

S01E01: 1969 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

A bad moon arisin - from Civil Rights to the outbreak of the Troubles.

03: Ceasefire | Endgame in Ireland

With Sinn Fein seeking credibility on the international stage, conditions were set for Gerry Adams' visit to the US. It was the first IRA ...

50 Years of the Troubles: a Journey through Film

Film maker Mark Cousins, who left Belfast at 18, returns to his home town to reflect on how the place and its history have b...

My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me

Documentary in which Patrick Kielty, whose father was murdered by paramilitary gunmen, returns home to explore the legacy of Northern Ireland's...

S05E01: 1963-1968 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

When Terence O'Neill becomes the new prime minister of Northern Ireland, there is hope that sectarian tensions will reduce as h...

S02E01: 1971 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode focuses on 1971. Events take a darker turn when the first British soldiers die in the Troubles, Brian Faulkner becomes ...

02: Talking to Terrorists | Endgame in Ireland

In April 1981, Bobby Sands, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike, won a seat at Westminster, inadvertently starting the endgame in...

Episode 7 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

The inside story of how the Troubles ended, told by those who fought the IRA's war and by those at the heart of peace...

Episode 5 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

This episode traces how unionist anger grew as IRA attacks on the security forces killed members of their community.

Episode 3 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

Jennifer O'Leary uncovers IRA arms connections around the world and charts how republicans built a political strategy...

Episode 2 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

New revelations about how the IRA went from anticipating victory to fighting a bloody, long war against Britain, with...

Holy Cross (2003)

A drama about sectarian hatred in Belfast, based on real events in 2001. Conflict arises when Catholic girls walk through a Protestant area to get to the H...

S01E04: 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 Tib...

Dunkirk (2017)

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

01: 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...

Hiroshima

Dramatic reconstruction of the devastating impact of the first atomic bomb to be used against people on the citizens of Hiroshima.

08: Their Finest Hour | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow take an in-depth look at the battles that shaped our nation. The Battle of Britain was the pivotal air battle ...

S02E03: Attack on Pearl Harbor | Days That Shook the World

The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which changed world history.

What Happened at Hiroshima | What Happened at..?

On the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jordan Dunbar hears from the only people who have ever ex...

20: Genocide | The World at War

This edition recounts Himmler's plans to realise Hitler's vision of a pure Aryan Germany. Narrated by Laurence Olivier.

05: The Road to Treblinka | Nazis: A Warning from History

Documentary showing how the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 was a crucial catalyst for the radicalis...

08: Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima | Twentieth Century History

On 7th December 1941, Japanese planes bombed the US fleet at Pearl Harbour. Programme looks at what caused Japan t...

S03E07: The Battle of Midway | Days That Shook the World

In a span of four minutes at the Battle of Midway, American carrier pilots destroyed Japan's best ships, killed 4,00...

06: Why Appeasement? | Twentieth Century History

A look back at at the inter war years and the events leading up to the Second World War. The programme also examines the dip...

The Era of the Second World War: 04: Living Under Axis Rule | History File

This programme looks at the impact of the war on the civilians in different countries and the cho...

The Era of the Second World War: 03: The Home Front | History File

The Home Front examines the extent of the changes bought about by the strains and dangers of bombing, fami...

The Era of the Second World War: 01: The Drift to War | History File

A schools programme providing an analysis of the major causes of the Second World War.

03: 1942 Stalingrad | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow explain about one of the most epic battles of World War II and describe how the tactic...

The Era of the Second World War: 02: Battle On All Fronts | History File

This programme looks at some contrasting and representative campaigns in great depth, including the...

Darkest Hour (2017)

As the Nazis advance against Britain's European allies, newly elected prime minister Winston Churchill must decide whether to leave neighbouring countrie...

S01E12: Join the Hitler Youth | Horrible Histories

Joining the Hitler Youth-or else.

S01E04: World War Two | Turn Back Time

The shopkeepers and their customers are plunged into World War Two, and for the first time profit isn't everything.

07: Culloden: The Jacobites' Last Stand | Battlefield Britain

Dan and Peter Snow use computer animation and dramatised testimony to relive defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie's ...

06: The Battle of the Boyne | Battlefield Britain

Peter and Dan Snow explore in depth the battles that shaped the nation. The story of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, when ...

03: The Cromwell: New Model Englishman | Plague, Fire, War and Treason

How did this non-descript East Anglian gentleman emerge from the Fens to prove himself a military geni...

04: Cromwell | Great Britons (2002)

Monarchist and military historian Richard Holmes proposes Oliver Cromwell, the reluctant republican and revolutionary who helped establis...

S02E03: Battle of Naseby | War Walks

Richard Holmes visits Britain's historical sites. He travels to Naseby, where, in 1645, King Charles I lost the decisive battle of the E...

02: The Big Bang | Sword, Musket & Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History

Sam Willis on the history of weapons that have shaped Britain. He charts the impact of gunpowder on t...

S02E02: Revolutions | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Featuring the revolutionary period in Britain after the execution of Charles I, from Cromwell's iron rule to Charl...