The Necessary War

0: 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 who...

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

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.

1: 1918 Western Front | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

The Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.

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 ...

1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File

Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...

1: Commemoration | Not Forgotten

Commemoration, examining the movement for war memorials following the First World War, and the continuation of this tradition for subsequent...

1: David Lloyd George | Great Britons (1990)

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

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

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

1: Explosion | 1914-1918

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.

1: 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, ...

1: The Approach of War | History File

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

1: The Dreadnoughts of Scapa Flow | War at Sea: Scotland's Story

First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of the No...

1: 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 focus...

10: 1939: Total War | People's Century

The Second World War enmeshes civilians to the horrors of war on an unprecedented scale.

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...

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

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

10: What Are Our Allies Doing? | The Great War

The war continues throughout 1915. Towering over all else was the mighty German offensive of Gorlice-Tarnow, where the Russian...

10: Wolf Pack | The World at War

German U-boats cause havoc among Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic.

11: 1945: Brave New World | People's Century

Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leading to t...

11: Hell Cannot Be So Terrible | The Great War

This episode looks at the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest clashes in history, which lasted for ten months during 1916.