The World Wars

Revealing the heroic spies who helped contribute to victory in WWII.

Divers search for Hitler’s U-boat fleet that lies off the north west coast of Ireland.

The Allies launch a high-stakes invasion of Nazi-occupied France to win the war.

As the new year dawns in Berlin, the city is fractured and divided.

At the beginning of 1945, Berlin remains under the spell of the Nazi promise of salvation.

Reeling from World War I, residents feel the impact of a new political party, the Nazis.

A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

A political mastermind uses the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.

A film that explores the human cost of atomic bombs used in wartime.

A look at the life of Gordon Welchman, a codebreaker crucial to the defeat of the Nazis.

Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.

Using new evidence, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust.

Missing for over 100 years - the war detectives trace relatives of two fallen soldiers.

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived through the Blitz.

1959 documentary showing images of a Liverpool still recovering from the post-war gloom.

Frank Brent, an NCO with the Australian Imperial Force, fought at Gallipoli.

Following seven leading artists as they paint seven survivors of the Holocaust.

Never-before-seen footage from interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War.

Eighty years on, Rachel Burden hears the stories and memories of the UK's D-Day veterans.

American reporter Ed Murrow returns to London where he spent much of World War II. (1959)

Journalist Jordan Dunbar meets survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau.