War & Politics

Gripping historical footage and expert commentary give detailed insights into the leading figures and decisive turning points of World War II.

Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe ...

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the ...

As we fly above the infamous battle sites of D-Day and Dunkirk, soar over hidden Nazi bunkers, and glide across lost battleships and sunken ...

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

The decades during the Cold War were one thing above all: a race between scientists. Researchers, engineers and experts from the USA and the ...

It is a fictional historical drama about the story of King Seonjong who ascends to the throne due to a rebellion, and Lee Tae who becomes the ...

Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922, after his March on Rome. He would hold it in his grasp until his death in 1945, establishing a ...

The true story of America’s iconic 16th president as told by weaving together both scripted dramatizations of important moments in his life ...

Tracing the origins of anti-government extremism by examining a deadly series of historical events that galvanized far right radicals to take ...

Hitler’s Secret Sex Life exposes the myriad of rumours, theories and disputed historical accounts of Adolf Hitler’s sexual psychology. ...

The Nazi era from 1993 to 1945 is illustrated through archived material, with insights and anecdotes provided by world-leading experts and ...

This four-part documentary series traces the veteran experience across the arc of American history and explores the present-day divide between ...

Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship ...

In June 1941, Hitler took his greatest gamble – launching an attack against the Soviet Union. Despite being the largest German operation of ...

In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the ...

Through a twenty-first century lens, the series explores the dark, manipulative and misogynistic world of Versailles. Travelling deep inside ...

Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the ...

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

In covert modern warfare, the line between right and wrong has blurred. This docuseries examines the moral ambiguities of war as embodied by the ...

In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots ...

ZERV” tells of the first years after the fall of the Wall, the breaks in life courses, of completely different biographies and of the ...

May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse?

As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he ...

A desperate love story between Young-ro, a youthful female freshman student, and Soo-ho, a prestigious but mysterious university graduate, who ...

Documentary remembering those Scots who were involved in the Troubles.

The story of how the Guardia Civil, a militarized police force, fought for nearly half a century against ETA, a ruthless terrorist gang dedicated ...

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

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, ...

In 1960s Spain, a Holocaust survivor joins a group of agents seeking justice against the hundreds of Nazis who fled to the nation to hide after WWII.