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...
The Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.
Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious but nearly bankrupt, beginning a b...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...
Commemoration, examining the movement for war memorials following the First World War, and the continuation of this tradition for subsequent...
John Grigg narrates the life of David Lloyd George. As Lloyd George's biographer, Grigg remarks, ''My father knew Lloyd George''...
Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.
A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the lib...
David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of In...
The first section asks who was to blame for the war.
First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of ...
Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode...
The Second World War enmeshes civilians to the horrors of war on an unprecedented scale.
Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...
While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.
The war continues throughout 1915. Towering over all else was the mighty German offensive of Gorlice-Tarnow, where the Russian...
German U-boats cause havoc among Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic.
Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leadin...
This episode looks at the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest clashes in history, which lasted for ten months during 1916.
Following Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Soviet Army battles the Germans almost alone for two years - with a loss of over 20 million lives.
The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.
After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...
Europe is exhausted and impoverished in the years after the Second World War. The United States implements the Marshall Plan to r...
Over two million volunteers respond to Kitchener's appeal of 1916, and many are sent to the killing grounds of ...
The United States nuclear strategy of counterforce, intended to counter a Soviet conventional attack by targeting military facilities, is discr...
The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...
While Bomber Command are unable to hit their targets precisely and begin bombing German cities under cover of darkness, the Americans reinfo...
The Battle of the Somme began in July 1916. By February 1917, an irreparable blow had been struck at the German Army, but at the cost...
Churchill described Italy as the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile', thinking the Allies could cut through it to reach Germany. However,...
Nuclear weapons make the world more dangerous than ever before. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by atom bombs is...
By the end of 1916 a compromise peace is considered, but the new leaders are committed to seeking total victory - at any ...
As Allied troops prepare to defend Burma, they are confronted in dreadful monsoon conditions by the Japanese, who are...
Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...
Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity an...
Following the Chinese Revolution Mao Zedong aligns China firmly with the Soviet Union. China becomes the recipient of Soviet aid, supports Co...
After their defeat in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe changes the direction of bombing raids from London to the provincial cities.
This episode explores the attempts to rally the French Army for a spring offensive, but they began to openly mutiny.
Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearful of a US-C...
In the summer of 1940, the German forces are the conquerors of western Europe. At home the feeling is that the war is over as German ...
In 1917, the October revolution brought the Communists to power in Russia, while America entered into the war on 6th Ap...
Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...
The story of the 1944 D-Day invasion, in which British, American and Canadian forces launched the largest ever amphibian invasion on the beach...
Morale becomes impossible to sustain as the battle of Passchendaele lasts through the summer of 1917.
The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests,...
Following the October Revolution, Russian enthusiasm for the war heartens the Allies and alarms the Germans.
In 1940, the Germans strike against Holland, a country which has a strong indigenous Nazi movement but also liberal traditions and a courag...
Carter's ambitious proposals for total multilateral nuclear disarmament are rejected by Brezhnev; his championing of human rights does not w...
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