Russia and the USSR

3: Hadrian's Wall: Life on the Frontier | The Flying Archaeologist

Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a landscape of hundreds of sites of human occupation sugg...

2: Bolshevik Russia | History File

This programme looks at the Bolsheviks.

3: 1917: Red Flag | People's Century

The October Revolution brings forth a new Marxist Leninist society in what becomes the Soviet Union. Its people, now freed from feudal e...

Lenin calls for insurrection | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

Lenin persuades the central committee of the Bolshevik Party to vote in favour of violent insurrection.

July Days | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

An investigation of the July Days and Lenin in Razliv.

Lenin's letters | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

Lenin's letters from hiding in Finland.

April Crisis | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

An investigation of the April Crisis and Lenin's speech in Petrograd.

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin over the 245 days that brought them to power. As the history unfolds, writers and historians deba...

3: Geneva 1985 | Summits

David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. He sees how Reagan and Gorbachev helped ensure a peaceful e...

2: Vienna 1961 | Summits

David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. How Kennedy and Khrushchev's meeting in Vienna in 1961 near...

S3E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.

S2E9: Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers | Days That Shook the World

This program focuses on the exchange of pilot Gary Powers and Soviet spy Colonel Abel in 1962.

S2E9: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World

This program focuses on the shooting down of the US U-2 spy plane in 1960.

S2E6: Yuri Gagarin's Flight | Days That Shook the World

Yuri Gagarin's journey as the first man in space.

5: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

5: Evil Empire 1980's | History File

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

4: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

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

3: U2 and the Arms Race 1956-60 | History File

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

2: Hungary 1956 | History File

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

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...

S3E4: The Two Winstons | A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Examining the 20th century through the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who both wrote about the D...

S8E5: Mutiny - The True Story Of The Red October | Secret History

The true story of the Russian submarine crew who planned to start a revolution in 1975.

S4E6: Konkordski | Secret History

Documentary revealing the truth behind the crash of the Soviet supersonic passenger jet at the Paris Air Show in 1974.

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...

21: Spies: 1944-1994 | Cold War

Throughout the Cold War both sides sought intelligence about their opponents using spies, satellites and other means. For political reasons, ...

8: Sputnik: 1949-1961 | Cold War

As a consequence of the atomic spies, the Soviet Union joined the nuclear club, and the two superpowers compete to develop their nuclear ars...

6: Reds: 1948-1953 | Cold War

The fears the leadership of both sides had were projected inwards towards their own people. In the United States the House Committee on Un-Amer...

1: Stalin and the Modernisation of Russia | Twentieth Century History

A schools feature about the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, who turned Russia into an industrial powerho...

9: Stalingrad | The World at War

After initial successes, Hitler's invasion of Russia is decisively stopped at Stalingrad.

S2E2: Stalingrad | Rise of the Nazis

The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met ...

S2E3: The Home Front | Rise of the Nazis

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and a...

5: Stalin and the Bomb | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

4: Life Under Stalin | History File

This programme looks at the Cold War.

3: Stalin Takes Control | History File

This programmeramme covers Stalin.

7: After Stalin: 1953-1956 | Cold War

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet leader after the death of Stalin. Khrushchev rolls back a number of oppressive measures that existed u...

Stalin: Inside the Terror

Documentary that uncovers the private and family life of the Soviet dictator. Using reconstructions, it also attempts to discover Stalin's motives ...

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin over the 245 days that brought them to power. As the history unfolds, writers and historians deba...

Mr Jones

In 1933, suspicious of Russia's miraculous resurgence under Stalin, Gareth Jones escapes Moscow's decadence and discovers Ukraine's desperation. However, it is not ...

How the Holocaust Began

Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and ...

Gulag

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film explores the Gulag lega...

2: The World Turned Upside Down | Russia's Lost Princesses

The last four years of the sisters' lives saw war, revolution, imprisonment and murder.

1: The Gilded Cage | Russia's Lost Princesses

The story of Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters. As they grew up, the sisters attracted frenzied press attention and grew close ...

3: The Road to Revolution | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy investigates how the Romanov family's grip on Russia unravelled in their final century...

2: Age of Extremes | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

The story of the dynasty that ruled Russia for more than three centuries. Lucy examines the reign ...

1: Reinventing Russia | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy looks at the beginning of the Romanovs' reign, from Mikhail to Peter the Great, the tsar d...

S1E5: The Murder of the Romanovs | Days That Shook the World

This program examines events marking the beginning and end of communism in Eastern Europe, including the executi...

1: The Fall of Tsarism | History File

This programme at fall of Tsarism.

Nicholas' abdication | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

After the hardships of WWI, the people were hungry and poor, and the soldiers refused to carry o...

Rasputin's demise | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explores how WWI influenced Nicolas II's leadership and encouraged Rasputin's fame to quickly ...

Rasputin | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Nicolas II's son was a haemophiliac, and despite being on deaths door, Rasputin was able to heal him.

Tsar Nicholas II | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lucy describes Tsar Nicholas II's rise to power and how his faith and attention to detail distracted...

Lenin and Tsar Nicholas | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Lenin was the antidote to the Romanov rule and in 1917, his Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Pal...

Bloody Sunday | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

In 1905, 150,000 workers protested at the winter palace and after a year of revolution, Nicholas II ins...

2: Rasputin | The Last Days of...

Rasputin: Writers, thinkers and historians explore the downfall and legacy of Rasputin, the Siberian peasant who rose from obscurity to the...

The October Revolution | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The events of the October Revolution.

The Winter Palace | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The assault on the Winter Palace.

After the revolution | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The impact of the October Revolution on Russia to the present.