Documentary series recounting the exploits of the Special Operations Executive in World War Two.

During the second world war, the Nazis looted everything they could get their hands on, including an estimated 600 tons of gold, thousands of...

Adolf Hitler pretended to be poor but amassed a huge private fortune. The Führer may have believed he was Jewish. Rigorously fact-checked...

An examination of the events that lead up to the attack on Pearl Harbour.

While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed...

A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it...

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian London through the excavations at St James's...

Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the...

Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.

The Battle of Stalingrad, which cost the lives of at least a million German soldiers, Red Army troops and Soviet civilians, was the bloodiest of...

Great Blunders Of World War II is a documentary series looking some of the worst errors of World War II that affected the course of history. They...

As part of the RAF's centenary, model aircraft enthusiasts from Britain and Germany recreate the Battle of Britain in miniature, to understand and...

This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films...

The epic television history of the Second World War’s Eastern Front giving an unprecedented Russian perspective on the war’s most decisive and...

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British...

The Lost Evidence is a television program on The History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness...

Documentary using recorded figures and statistics to outline the full extent of the conflict, explaining the horrors of war and how it ever came to...