Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

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...

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.

8: 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 o...

German youth | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Hitler targeted the German youth, he wanted to indoctrinate them with Nazi ideology as early as possible.

S1E4 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga traces the history of the house in Liverpool from ...

6: 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 dipl...

4: The Wild East | Nazis: A Warning from History

This film provides insights into how the Nazis' reign of terror in Poland was characterised by huge population upheavals, ch...

7: Britain Alone | Twentieth Century History

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

Poland | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The brutality of the Nazi occupation in Poland.

14: 1945: Fallout | People's Century

Nuclear weapons make the world more dangerous than ever before. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by atom bombs is haile...

2: Germany | The Road to War

Charles Wheeler examines events on the German side.

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.

5: 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 radicalisa...

6: Fighting to the End | Nazis: A Warning from History

Examining the rise of the Nazis and their impact. Fear and hatred of Bolshevism drove many Germans to fight to the bit...

9: The Road to Berlin | Twentieth Century History

1943-45 - the final years of the Second World War lead to the defeat of Hitler's Germany and the problems of post-war Europe.

Arras | War Walks

A journey through six centuries of warfare. Military historian Richard Holmes reviews the strategic importance of the Battle for Arras in 1940.

Hiroshima

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

In Sight of Home: The Iolaire

Documentary providing a moving account of the HMY Iolaire, which tragically sank on New Year's Day 1919 and is arguably the greatest tragedy to...

S1E3 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the story from 1891 to 1945, through two W...