History

Hiroshima

Hiroshima is a BBC docudrama that analyses and depicts the devastating impact of the world’s first nuclear attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the United States military in 1945. Narrated by John Hurt, it includes re-...

Hitler in Colour

Hitler in Colour explores the rise and fall of the world’s most infamous tyrant, tracing his transformation from leader of the Nazi Party into a notorious dictator. Chronicling Adolf Hitler’s twelve-year rule as Führer of Ger...

In Search of History: The Aztec Empire

In Search of History: The Aztec Empire presents a comprehensive profile of the ancient American people known as the Aztecs, from their beginnings as a group of around 1,000 people to their ascension as the dominant culture of...

LA 92

LA 92 chronicles the unfolding riots in Los Angeles, California, in 1992, as social justice activists demanded police reform in the wake of the police assault on Rodney King, a Black motorist. Framed by both the events that l...

Mankind: The Story of All of Us

Mankind: The Story of All of Us explores how humans have evolved and survived over thousands of years. While climate has played a role in determining where people establish civilisations, humanity has developed tools and tech...

Night and Fog

Night and Fog is a French documentary directed by Alain Resnais which depicts the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe. Filmed ten years after the end of the war, it fluctuates between scenes of abandoned death c...

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

Once Upon a Time in Iraq chronicles the story of the Iraq War from the perspectives of the people who lived through it. It covers events between 2003, when coalition forces occupied the country, and 2014, when the Islamic Sta...

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name explores the continuation of slavery long after the Emancipation Proclamation. Challenging the preconceived notion that slavery ended in the United States at the conclusion of the American Civil War, t...

Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East

Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East is an eighteen-part series that recounts Russia’s epic military role on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. It begins with the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, known as Operation...

Stealing a Nation

Stealing a Nation recounts the expulsion of the indigenous population of the Chagos Islands in the 1960s and 1970s by the British government. Whitehall cleared the way for the US military to build an airbase on Diego Garcia,...