3: Stalin Takes Control | History File

1: Stalin and the Modernisation of Russia | Twentieth Century History

A schools feature about the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, who turned Russia into an industrial powerho...

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

5: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

7: After Stalin: 1953-1956 | Cold War

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet leader after the death of Stalin. Khrushchev rolls back a number of oppressive measures that existed u...

9: Stalingrad | The World at War

After initial successes, Hitler's invasion of Russia is decisively stopped at Stalingrad.

Gulag

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film explores the Gulag lega...

How the Holocaust Began

Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and ...

Mr Jones

In 1933, suspicious of Russia's miraculous resurgence under Stalin, Gareth Jones escapes Moscow's decadence and discovers Ukraine's desperation. However, it is not ...

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin over the 245 days that brought them to power. As the history unfolds, writers and historians deba...

S2E2: Stalingrad | Rise of the Nazis

The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met ...

S2E3: The Home Front | Rise of the Nazis

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and a...

Stalin: Inside the Terror

Documentary that uncovers the private and family life of the Soviet dictator. Using reconstructions, it also attempts to discover Stalin's motives ...