S02E03: 1940 | Turn Back Time

S02E03: 1940 | Turn Back Time

History | BBC One | 2012 | 59'05''

They must pull together to survive and do their bit for the war effort.

S01E04: World War Two | Turn Back Time

S01E04: World War Two | Turn Back Time

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2010 | 59'09''

The shopkeepers and their customers are plunged into World War Two, and for the first time profit isn't everything.

War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey | Landmarks

War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1992 | 19'13''

Detailing the only occupied part of the UK during WWII.

05: Defeat…for Others | Landmarks

05: Defeat…for Others | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 19'39''

In 1939 Berlin was an exciting place to live for the young Dietmar Haack, but his secure and privileged home was turned upside down w...

04: Victory…for Some | Landmarks

04: Victory…for Some | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 18'56''

Roger Finn explains reasons for rationing, Pat Fawcett talks about her fathers death during the war and Hannah Newman recalls her expe...

03: Occupation | Landmarks

03: Occupation | Landmarks

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 18'55''

Documentary abt the story of Hans Verhoven, who was just eight when the German forces occupied Holland. He recalls the days of hunger and cold; da...

Count Basie | Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Count Basie | Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2015 | 2'36''

Jools plays a Count Basie song and explains why simplicity can be better then being over the top.

Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Dancing through the Blitz: Blackpool’s Big Band Story

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2015 | 1'29'01''

Documentary film celebrating the big band sound and uncovering the social history behind the music that kept the ...

8: Global War | The Road to War

8: Global War | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 49'26''

Charles Wheeler shows how Germany's desire for expansion in eastern Europe, starting with Poland, developed into a worldwide conflict.

7: USA | The Road to War

7: USA | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 49'18''

Using archive footage and eyewitness accounts, this instalment looks at the USA's isolationism and events leading up to bombing of Pearl Harbor.

6: Japan | The Road to War

6: Japan | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 49'02''

This episode traces Japan's road to war from drawing plans to destroy the US fleet in the Pacific (1907) to the Pearl Harbour attack (1941).

5: France | The Road to War

5: France | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 48'26''

In this programme, he discusses the economic and political problems France faced in the aftermath of victory in World War I and asks why this led...

4: Italy | The Road to War

4: Italy | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 48'47''

Charles Wheeler examines the role played by Italy.

3: Soviet Union | The Road to War

3: Soviet Union | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 48'26''

Charles Wheeler examines the role of the Soviet Union in the war, and Stalin's relationship with Hitler.

2: Germany | The Road to War

2: Germany | The Road to War

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 1989 | 49'06''

Charles Wheeler examines events on the German side.

2: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

2: Evacuation | Dunkirk (2004)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'22''

To evacuate the thousands at Dunkirk, the Admiralty requisitions small boats, while the Navy races to lift as many as it can.

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 59'15''

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.

Dunkirk (2017)

Dunkirk (2017)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2020 | 1'37'04''

Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops find themselves in an impossible situation. Christopher Nolan's epic wartime action thriller.

Postwar: E20: What if? | Politically

Postwar: E20: What if? | Politically

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Radio 22 | 2025 | 13'44''

What would Britain have been like if Winston Churchill had won the 1945 general election?

Postwar: E18: Churchill: Lion in Winter | Politically

Postwar: E18: Churchill: Lion in Winter | Politically

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Radio 20 | 2025 | 13'41''

What happened to Winston Churchill in the years after the 1945 general election?

Postwar: E15: Debt to America | Politically

Postwar: E15: Debt to America | Politically

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Radio 17 | 2025 | 13'37''

In 1945, Britain was the most indebted country in the world.

Postwar: E12: Art, War and Propaganda | Politically

Postwar: E12: Art, War and Propaganda | Politically

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Radio 14 | 2025 | 13'42''

With the formation of the Arts Council in 1945, on-going state patronage of the arts began.

Episode 3 | 1940s House

Episode 3 | 1940s House

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 50'03''

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...

Episode 2 | 1940s House

Episode 2 | 1940s House

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 50'03''

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...

Episode 1 | 1940s House

Episode 1 | 1940s House

Conflict and Warfare | Channel 4 | 2001 | 49'54''

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...

S2E5 | World on Fire

S2E5 | World on Fire

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2023 | 57'19''

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...

S1E6 | World on Fire

S1E6 | World on Fire

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2019 | 58'10''

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.

S1E5 | World on Fire

S1E5 | World on Fire

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2019 | 58'17''

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...

S1E3 | World on Fire

S1E3 | World on Fire

Conflict and Warfare | BBC One | 2019 | 58'08''

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...

Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories

Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'50''

Film documenting the stories of Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, two slave labourers who escaped from Treblinka extermination cam...

Tributes to Churchill | Panorama

Tributes to Churchill | Panorama

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC One | 1965 | 47'52''

As viewers come to terms with the loss of a great British hero, Richard Dimbleby hosts a collection of tributes to Winston Churchill from hi...

International Relations 1919-1939 | Curriculum Bites

International Relations 1919-1939 | Curriculum Bites

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'53''

Why did the Second World War begin only twenty years after the end of the First?

International Relations | Curriculum Bites

International Relations | Curriculum Bites

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2012 | 58'50''

Secondary history series examining why WWII broke out only 20 years or so after WWI, and what led to the Holocaust. It begins with...

Stalingrad | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Stalingrad | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2012 | 4'01''

The German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Russian winter | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Russian winter | The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2012 | 2'14''

Hitler shows little compassion for German soldiers stuck in Russia during the winter.

Dunkirk: The Soldiers’ Story

Dunkirk: The Soldiers’ Story

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2004 | 48'27''

Veterans of World War II describe the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the largest military evacuation in history. Their first real experien...

9: Churchill | Great Britons (2002)

9: Churchill | Great Britons (2002)

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2002 | 58'22''

In the final documentary of the series, MP Mo Mowlam argues for Winston Churchill as the greatest Briton, portraying him as an inspiratio...

Through Hell For Hitler | Timewatch

Through Hell For Hitler | Timewatch

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2003 | 49'03''

Dramatized documentary following the life of Nazi soldier Henry Metelmann. As a soldier fighting in Kursk and Stalingrad, he eventually b...

2: Churchill | Secrets of Leadership

2: Churchill | Secrets of Leadership

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2003 | 49'06''

Andrew Roberts reveals many of Churchill's weaknesses as a subordinate in charge of the Royal Navy, and the great strengths they became ...

3: 1942 Stalingrad | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

3: 1942 Stalingrad | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'00''

Peter and Dan Snow explain about one of the most epic battles of World War II and describe how the tactics...

2: 1942 Midway | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

2: 1942 Midway | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'04''

The Snows fly to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to revisit the battle of Midway.

D-Day 80th Anniversary | From Above

D-Day 80th Anniversary | From Above

Conflict and Warfare | BBC News | 2024 | 8'32''

Watch commemorations from above while hearing the powerful stories from veterans who were part of the largest military seaborne operation...

26: Remember | The World at War

26: Remember | The World at War

Conflict and Warfare | ITV | 1973 | 49'35''

As peace descends in 1945, the series ends with a sombre reminder of the human cost of the bloodiest conflict in history.

25: Reckoning | The World at War

25: Reckoning | The World at War

Conflict and Warfare | ITV | 1973 | 51'03''

This episode looks at the end of the war, and at how the superpowers confronted each other to establish a new political order.

24: The Bomb | The World at War

24: The Bomb | The World at War

Conflict and Warfare | ITV | 1973 | 52'07''

This episode looks at the Allied scientists' attempts to develop a new, immensely powerful weapon, and debates the moral implications of its ...

23: Pacific | The World at War

23: Pacific | The World at War

Conflict and Warfare | ITV | 1973 | 50'28''

Ferocious fighting characterises the Allied offensive in the Pacific. The Japanese are fanatical in defence and severe casualties are incurred...

22: Japan | The World at War

22: Japan | The World at War

Conflict and Warfare | ITV | 1973 | 50'36''

A look at Japan's fight for survival in 1944, as the country was crippled by shortages of food, metals and fuel.

21: Nemesis | The World at War

21: Nemesis | The World at War

Conflict and Warfare | ITV | 1973 | 51'55''

As the net closes upon Berlin, Hitler retreats to an underground bunker and faces the end of the Reich with his officers.