Hope and Glory (1987)

Hope and Glory (1987)

History | BBC Two | 2024 | 1'47'56''

Second World War London is Bill's playground, though there are also lessons to be learned as the boy observes the behaviour of the adults around him. J...

20th Century World: 01: The effects of the Great War | History File

20th Century World: 01: The effects of the Great War | History File

History | BBC Two | 1999 | 19'26''

Archive material illustrates the life of the fictitious Ellis family before, during and after the First W...

02: 1910s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

02: 1910s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'55''

The Robshaw family travel back to the 1910s - a decade of feast and famine. Rochelle struggles to feed the family as supplies run...

06: Episode 6 | Further Back in Time for Dinner

06: Episode 6 | Further Back in Time for Dinner

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'38''

In the final episode, the family and Debbie reflect on their time travels, discovering that much of what they experienced in ...

05: 1940s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

05: 1940s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'51''

In their final decade of time travel, the Robshaws enter the 1940s and experience a decade overshadowed by war and entirely fuell...

04: 1930s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

04: 1930s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'59''

The Robshaw family discover a surprising decade of progress and optimism as they journey through the 30s. Their larder is now stu...

03: 1920s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

03: 1920s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'36''

The Robshaws experience a thoroughly modern decade as they enter the 20s. They get a taste of the age's racy reputation as they h...

01: 1900s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

01: 1900s | Further Back in Time for Dinner

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'04''

The Robshaw family travel back in time to the turn of the 20th century, to discover how the food we ate and the way we ate it hel...

02: The Blitz | Landmarks

02: The Blitz | Landmarks

History | BBC Two | 1989 | 19'01''

In April 1940, the phoney war ended and the real war began. What did the Battle of Britain and the Blitz mean to people at home? St Mark's schoolch...

01: The Evacuees | Landmarks

01: The Evacuees | Landmarks

History | BBC Two | 1989 | 19'01''

Former evacuees reminisce and pupils of St Marks School reinact evacuation day and visit a war memorial, including an explanation of the war's h...

At War: Omnibus 1 | Coal House

At War: Omnibus 1 | Coal House

History | BBC One Wales | 2008 | 59'01''

Three Welsh families time travel back to 1944. This programme features the highs and lows of the first week for the Griffithses, the Paiseys a...

S02E06 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

S02E06 | Hidden Wales with Will Millard

History | BBC One Wales | 2020 | 29'44''

Will Millard discovers the hidden history of World War Two by exploring forgotten, secret and usually inaccessible locations that giv...

02: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

02: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'22''

To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'15''

The Allies are in retreat, but the Navy can only pick up a few soldiers and Churchill is advised to make peace to save the rest.

Dunkirk (2017)

Dunkirk (2017)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2020 | 1'37'04''

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

S01E02: Frontline Dorset | Walking Through History

S01E02: Frontline Dorset | Walking Through History

History | Channel 4 | 2013 | 46'49''

Tony Robinson takes a series of walks through some of Britain's most historic and spectacular landscapes, revealing how Do...

Bombing London | Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Bombing London | Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2021 | 13'35''

Covering the Germans bombing London and the impact including government censorship of the newspapers.

Blitz | Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Blitz | Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2021 | 4'09''

Clip covers the phoney war, evacuation of children and finishes about the killing of pets.

Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2021 | 1'29'03''

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government's reliance ...

Postwar: E5: The Soldiers’ Election | Politically

Postwar: E5: The Soldiers’ Election | Politically

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Radio 7 | 2025 | 13'37''

During the 1945 election, there were still almost five million servicemen and women.

Postwar: E4: Public Opinion | Politically

Postwar: E4: Public Opinion | Politically

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Radio 6 | 2025 | 13'44''

How could politicians know what voters were thinking in 1945?

Postwar: E2: Mr Churchill and Mr Attlee | Politically

Postwar: E2: Mr Churchill and Mr Attlee | Politically

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Radio 4 | 2025 | 13'45''

With the war in Europe at an end, Churchill and Attlee became fierce election rivals.

Episode 3 | 1940s House

Episode 3 | 1940s House

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 50'03''

Reality show where a contemporary family are placed in a house for a number of months in an attempt to live under the conditions experienced in warti...

Episode 2 | 1940s House

Episode 2 | 1940s House

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 50'03''

Reality show where a contemporary family are placed in a house for a number of months in an attempt to live under the conditions experienced in warti...

Episode 1 | 1940s House

Episode 1 | 1940s House

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'54''

Reality show where a contemporary family are placed in a house for a number of months in an attempt to live under the conditions experienced in warti...

Kate Adie’s Women of World War One

Kate Adie’s Women of World War One

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'14''

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

May Blitz: The Seven Days that Rocked Liverpool

May Blitz: The Seven Days that Rocked Liverpool

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2016 | 29'10''

For seven days in 1941, Hitler's Luftwaffe relentlessly bombed the strategically vital port of Liverpool. To commemorate the ...

S02E01 | World on Fire

S02E01 | World on Fire

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2023 | 58'04''

The war reaches the sands of the Egyptian desert, while bombs fall on Manchester, and Harry introduces an explosive force into Robina's household, lea...

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Atlantic

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2013 | 28'10''

Broadcaster Peter Sissons reveals how a secret command bunker in the heart of Liverpool played a key role in winning The Battle of the Atlantic. He al...

The Necessary War

The Necessary War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'06''

In a documentary to mark the 100-year anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, Sir Max Hastings argues that although the war was a great tragedy, it was...

Postwar: 1: The Rejection | Politically

Postwar: 1: The Rejection | Politically

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Radio 4 | 2025 | 13'45''

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age. Why did Winston Churchill find himself so decisively r...

Episode 2 | The Real Peaky Blinders

Episode 2 | The Real Peaky Blinders

History | BBC Two | 2022 | 58'54''

Looking at the birth of organised crime in Britain. Billy Kimber’s gang clash with London's Sabini gang and Alfie Solomon in the racecour...

Episode 1 | The Real Peaky Blinders

Episode 1 | The Real Peaky Blinders

History | BBC Two | 2022 | 58'48''

The origins of the real Peaky Blinders, a mass street gang phenomenon that arose in Birmingham at the end of the 19th century.

05: Birmingham | Blitz Cities

05: Birmingham | Blitz Cities

History | BBC One | 2015 | 44'04''

Hollywood actor David Harewood travels back to his native Birmingham to look at his city's Blitz story.

04: Cardiff | Blitz Cities

04: Cardiff | Blitz Cities

History | BBC One | 2015 | 29'14''

John Humphrys returns to south Wales to discover more about the effect of the Blitz on Cardiff and Swansea.

03: Norwich | Blitz Cities

03: Norwich | Blitz Cities

History | BBC One | 2015 | 29'03''

Myleene Klass goes back to her home county of Norfolk to look into the story of the Baedeker Blitz on Norwich.

02: Liverpool | Blitz Cities

02: Liverpool | Blitz Cities

History | BBC One | 2015 | 28'38''

Liverpool actor Ricky Tomlinson, who was born in 1939, looks at the effect the Blitz had on his home city.

01: London | Blitz Cities

01: London | Blitz Cities

History | BBC One | 2015 | 44'00''

EastEnders star Shane Richie travels around his home city of London to explore the history of the Blitz there.

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2020 | 58'58''

Documentary about the pioneering project, in 1945, to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Winderm...

Overview of the Great War | The Great War

Overview of the Great War | The Great War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1964 | 7'54''

A summary of the Great War with interviews by veterans.

Dunkirk: The Soldiers’ Story

Dunkirk: The Soldiers’ Story

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 48'27''

Veterans of World War II describe the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the largest military evacuation in history. Their first real experien...

01: David Lloyd George | Great Britons (1990)

01: David Lloyd George | Great Britons (1990)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1990 | 1'00'07''

John Grigg narrates the life of David Lloyd George. As Lloyd George's biographer, Grigg remarks, ''My father knew Lloyd George'...

Through Hell For Hitler | Timewatch

Through Hell For Hitler | Timewatch

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2003 | 49'03''

Dramatized documentary following the life of Nazi soldier Henry Metelmann. As a soldier fighting in Kursk and Stalingrad, he eventually b...

Episode 4 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Episode 4 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'03''

A look at the impact of the incendiary bomb that set fire to St Peter's Church, Bristol, in 1940.

Episode 3 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Episode 3 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'02''

Episode three follows a bomb that fell on Jellicoe Street in the Scottish town of Clydebank.

Episode 2 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Episode 2 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'05''

This episode explores the ramifications of a bomb that fell on 6th Avenue in the city of Hull.

Episode 1 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Episode 1 | Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'59''

Documentary series examining the impact of four individual bombs during the Blitz. This episode follows a bomb that fell on...

07: Britain Alone | Twentieth Century History

07: Britain Alone | Twentieth Century History

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 1978 | 20'01''

Programme looks at how Britain fought Germany alone after the fall of Europe in June 1940.