The past is explored through artefacts and reconstructions. An explanation of why poppies are used as a remembrance symbol for peopl...
Jeremy Paxman explores the optimistic national mood at the declaration of war in 1914 after Germany, under Kaise...
To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.
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.
Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops find themselves in an impossible situation. Christopher Nolan's epic wartime action thriller.
Covering the Germans bombing London and the impact including government censorship of the newspapers.
Clip covers the phoney war, evacuation of children and finishes about the killing of pets.
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government's reliance ...
What would Britain have been like if Winston Churchill had won the 1945 general election?
What happened to Winston Churchill in the years after the 1945 general election?
In 1945, Britain was the most indebted country in the world.
Both main parties supported the United Nations, but they disagreed about what that meant.
Between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, everything changed.
With the formation of the Arts Council in 1945, on-going state patronage of the arts began.
During the 1945 election, there were still almost five million servicemen and women.
How could politicians know what voters were thinking in 1945?
With the war in Europe at an end, Churchill and Attlee became fierce election rivals.
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fou...
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious ...
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...
Stuart Maconie goes in search of Britain's atomic past, discovering the world's first nuclear power station, tucked ...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War concludes with the post-war peace negotiations and the unfair treatment of the defeated Germans...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. This part looks at the poverty and unrest among the G...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War through the words of those who lived through the conflict. By the start of 1917, the strain of ...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele w...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War. With deadlock in the trenches, the great powers searched for other ways to br...
Series telling the history of the Great War. Experts thought technical advances in weaponry would bring about a quick victory, but armies soon resor...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.
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...
Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.
For seven days in 1941, Hitler's Luftwaffe relentlessly bombed the strategically vital port of Liverpool. To commemorate the ...
Tragedy strikes at the heart of Harry's unit as the siege drags on in Tobruk. In Manchester, Kasia is confronted by more of the horrors of war. In Franc...
The war reaches the sands of the Egyptian desert, while bombs fall on Manchester, and Harry introduces an explosive force into Robina's household, l...
The Nazis have taken Paris with not a bullet fired. Webster and Albert's life in the city they love will never be the same again.
Harry leads his unit on the route to Dunkirk as they fight to make it onto the beach and aboard a ship. Grzegorz and Tom also struggle to survive the ch...
December 1939, and Tom fights for his life on board the HMS Exeter at the Battle of River Plate. Meanwhile, Harry and Lois have a more personal battle t...
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...
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...
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...
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Chinese labour corp in WW1.
David Olusoga investigates the WW1 experiences of French troops from Sub-Sah...
David Olusoga discusses the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
David Olusoga discusses the Indian corp experiences of industrialised trench warfare.
David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Indian soldiers arriving in Marseille at th...
A rare insight into a village which sits within Korea's Demilitarised Zone.
Edward Behr presents a personal profile on the rise and fall from power of the Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu.
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