01: Winston Churchill | Walden on Heroes

01: Winston Churchill | Walden on Heroes

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1998 | 29'08''

The man credited with leading the nation to victory in the Second World War was, according to Walden, arrogant, callous and a milita...

Children of the Blitz

Children of the Blitz

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2026 | 1'28'37''

During the Blitz, over two million British children were not evacuated, instead staying at home in towns and cities at risk of being bombed. Now, the s...

The Science of D-Day

The Science of D-Day

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2014 | 28'57''

Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions - from giant troop-carrying gliders to tanks that could operate on water - that made the Normandy invasion...

What Happened at Hiroshima | What Happened at..?

What Happened at Hiroshima | What Happened at..?

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2025 | 29'13''

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

S01E12: Hitler Survival Rumours (Animated) | Horrible Histories

S01E12: Hitler Survival Rumours (Animated) | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 1'18''

Top three strangest!

S01E12: Join the Hitler Youth | Horrible Histories

S01E12: Join the Hitler Youth | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 1'55''

Joining the Hitler Youth-or else.

S01E12: Taking in evacuated children | Horrible Histories

S01E12: Taking in evacuated children | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 1'15''

A prim couple must choose from a difficult set of inner-city evacuee children.

S01E07: Gravy Stockings | Horrible Histories

S01E07: Gravy Stockings | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 50''

Fake nylon stockings made with gravy and eye-liner (advertisement).

S01E07: Twisted Fairytales: Cinderella | Horrible Histories

S01E07: Twisted Fairytales: Cinderella | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 1'42''

Clothes rationing takes its toll.

S01E02: WWII Prisoner of War Camp | Horrible Histories

S01E02: WWII Prisoner of War Camp | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 2'55''

The commandant of a German POW camp tries to keep a determined British officer from escaping.

S01E02: WWII carrier pigeon | Horrible Histories

S01E02: WWII carrier pigeon | Horrible Histories

Conflict and Warfare | CBBC | 2009 | 1'40''

Mary, the heroic carrier pigeon (animated).

01: Hitler | Walden on Villains

01: Hitler | Walden on Villains

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1999 | 29'03''

Walden focuses on Adolf Hitler, making the case that he gained control of Germany because he managed to seduce voters with reassuring message...

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

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

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1994 | 19'35''

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

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1994 | 19'20''

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: 02: Battle On All Fronts | History File

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

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1994 | 19'34''

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

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

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

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1994 | 19'20''

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

Darkest Hour (2017)

Darkest Hour (2017)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2020 | 1'56'50''

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

04: Vengeance | War of the Century

04: Vengeance | War of the Century

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1999 | 47'56''

Summer 1944: the seeds of Soviet victory are sown when Germany suffers huge casualties against Stalin's troops in Byelorussia. When, in Ap...

03: Learning to Win | War of the Century

03: Learning to Win | War of the Century

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1999 | 48'56''

An examination of the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most horrific engagements in the history of warfare where, in 1942, the exhau...

02: Spiral of Terror | War of the Century

02: Spiral of Terror | War of the Century

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1999 | 47'13''

First-hand testimony recalls the bloodshed of the Battle for Moscow, where many Soviet citizens perished as a result of their own l...

01: High Hopes | War of the Century

01: High Hopes | War of the Century

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1999 | 47'41''

A four-part breakdown of the reasons behind, and course of, the bloody war between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, which resu...

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Conflict and Warfare | BBC HD | 2012 | 59'08''

Writer and presenter Ben Macintyre reveals the gripping true story of the double agents who helped to make D-Day a success, a...

Clydebank Blitz

Clydebank Blitz

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2011 | 58'50''

Documentary about Scotland's worst civilian disaster - the intense bombing suffered by Clydebank over two nights in March 1941, news of which was censored at...

Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2016 | 59'27''

Documentary telling the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of ...

The Forgotten Volunteers | Timewatch

The Forgotten Volunteers | Timewatch

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1999 | 46'45''

Two-and-a-half million Indians fought for Britain in Second World War campaigns from Egypt to the Far East. Subject to some of the most ...

The Guinea Pig Club

The Guinea Pig Club

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2009 | 59'03''

Geraldine James narrates a documentary about the Guinea Pig Club, a drinking club whose members were former WWII pilots who cheated death and had a disfi...

1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?

1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2019 | 58'51''

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the Holocaust and raised one of the greatest...

S05: Two Cities at War: E04 | A House Through Time

S05: Two Cities at War: E04 | A House Through Time

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2024 | 58'55''

One Berlin resident falls under suspicion when a plot to kill Hitler is exposed. In London, one woman waits patiently for ...

S05: Two Cities at War: E03 | A House Through Time

S05: Two Cities at War: E03 | A House Through Time

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2024 | 59'13''

A young poet takes to the skies as bombs rain down on London. In Berlin, one family attempts to flee the country as the pe...

S05: Two Cities at War: E02 | A House Through Time

S05: Two Cities at War: E02 | A House Through Time

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2024 | 59'08''

In Berlin, an SS officer arrives in the building, and another resident sees the Nazis arrest her new husband. War throws t...

S05: Two Cities at War: E01 | A House Through Time

S05: Two Cities at War: E01 | A House Through Time

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2024 | 59'01''

David meets the residents of two apartment blocks in London and Berlin. From the ashes of World War I, the Nazi Party emer...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Icons

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Icons

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2019 | 13'28''

Paralysed from the waist down, FDR's bold social and economic reforms turned a country on the brink of catastrophe into a superpower, and h...

Winston Churchill | Icons

Winston Churchill | Icons

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2019 | 12'23''

From the battlefields of the Boer war, to the blitzed streets of wartime London, Trevor examines the qualities that made Churchill such a towering ...

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Skis Against the Atom | BBC Two | 2009 | 2'04'53''

A team of resistance fighters undertake the vital and dangerous mission to destroy the Norsk heavy water plant to prevent the Nazis producing a...

Episode 6 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Episode 6 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 57'44''

The dramatic story of the collapse of the Alliance in the wake of the end of the war, and Stalin's desire to turn on his wartim...

Episode 3 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Episode 3 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 57'14''

An exploration of the secret history of Churchill's first meeting with Joseph Stalin in Moscow and the behind-the-scenes action...

Episode 4 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Episode 4 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'56''

The story of the first meeting of the 'Big Three', Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, at Tehran. Plus, the secret history of the ...

Episode 5 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Episode 5 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 57'04''

The story of the Red Army's fight through Eastern Europe in 1944, as well as the behind the scenes history of the most famous A...

Episode 2 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Episode 2 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 57'28''

The secret history of Stalin's dealings with Churchill and the West in the wake of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Episode 1 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Episode 1 | World War II: Behind Closed Doors

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'20''

Documentary series revealing the 'behind-closed-doors' politics of World War II. This episode focuses on the secret history of ...

S02E03: 1940 | Turn Back Time

S02E03: 1940 | Turn Back Time

History | BBC One | 2012 | 59'05''

They must pull together to survive and do their bit for the war effort.

S01E04: World War Two | Turn Back Time

S01E04: World War Two | Turn Back Time

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2010 | 59'09''

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

War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey | Landmarks

War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1992 | 19'13''

Detailing the only occupied part of the UK during WWII.

05: Defeat…for Others | Landmarks

05: Defeat…for Others | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 19'39''

In 1939 Berlin was an exciting place to live for the young Dietmar Haack, but his secure and privileged home was turned upside down w...

04: Victory…for Some | Landmarks

04: Victory…for Some | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 18'56''

Roger Finn explains reasons for rationing, Pat Fawcett talks about her fathers death during the war and Hannah Newman recalls her expe...

03: Occupation | Landmarks

03: Occupation | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 18'55''

Documentary abt the story of Hans Verhoven, who was just eight when the German forces occupied Holland. He recalls the days of hunger and cold; da...

Count Basie | Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Count Basie | Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2015 | 2'36''

Jools plays a Count Basie song and explains why simplicity can be better then being over the top.

Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2015 | 1'29'01''

Documentary film celebrating the big band sound and uncovering the social history behind the music that kept the ...