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- A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
- In mockumentary format, characters discuss events of 2020 with a mixture of true information and satire. The overarching topic is the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the US and UK.
- A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It's imagery reflects Owen's story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars, including World War II, Vietnam, and Angola.
- 24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.
- In this one-off special documentary, actor Vicky McClure embarks on an emotional journey with her 97-year-old grandfather Ralph McClure to learn about his role in D-Day in June 1944. From visiting the home town of Ralph in his early early years to the locations that Ralph encountered and led to one of the most decisive battlefronts that would turn the fortunes of the allied forces on the Normandy beaches in France and beyond.
- Footage of Charles, some previously unseen, narrated by specially-selected old interviews with the King and Queen Camilla.
- Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
- Norway's five years in the World War II.
- Investigating the history and modern face of Holocaust denial.
- Documentary covering the friendship, historic collaboration and relationship between two physicists, Danish Neils Bohr and German Werner Heisenberg.
- The actor and comedian embarks upon a personal journey to the Caribbean to explore his family's roots, how he ended up being British and the deep-rooted, complex connection between the Commonwealth, the Caribbean and the UK.
- As Brexit Britain prepares to draw up new rules on immigration, Ian Hislop looks at the period when Britain first legislated against those wishing to settle here.
- Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Stanley Abbs, to explore a brutal but often overlooked chapter of World War Two.
- A documentary about the newsreel footage that cameraman Geoffrey Malins shot of the first few days' fighting of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, during the First World War. He was allowed extensive access to the trenches at the front line, as what would nowadays be termed an "embedded journalist". His footage, edited into a feature-length film, were shown as a propaganda film and seen by an estimate 20 million people back home - half the British population at the time.
- Takes a close look at one of the long lasting conflicts of the late 20th century: from the Easter Rising, the Irish republican insurrection against British government in Ireland, which began on April 1916 in Dublin to the Irish island now.
- Mark follows his grandfather's POW story, talks to the people whose families were also sent to the Japanese interment camps in Hong Kong and learns about the horrific devastation caused by the fire and atom bombs dropped on Japan.
- The third series concludes by tracing the lives of 10 Guinea Street's occupants through World War Two to the present day, discovering stories of love, loss and renewal.
- David uncovers the story of the next resident of the house, a ruthless factory owner. He learns of a pacifist couple who took a stand against the Boer War and of Edward Partridge Fearnley, who worked on luxury ships in the 1920s.
- David follows the trails of a traumatised soldier on the run, a family man who is at breaking point and a married couple with a shared interest in the spiritual movement of theosophy, one of whom developed an interest in the paranormal.
- WWII puts residents of Number 5 in danger. Leeds is a shock to a Greek war bride with a tragic past. The post-war period sees No. 5 home to a film critic and his wife. There is a return for students who lived here at the Millennium.
- A panel of motoring experts discuss their five favourite off-road cars. These are the tough all-terrain beasts that can drive anywhere, whether it's on tarmac or tundra.
- 202144m8.6 (9)TV EpisodeIn mid 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union to gain living space in the east for the Germans. Meanwhile the Nazi regime gradually advances its "final solution to the Jewish problem", culminating in the Holocaust.
- Churchill's privileged upbringing, his difficult relationship with his father, his fledgling early military and journalistic career, and how his incredible Boer War adventure made him famous.
- Revealing the drama of Churchill's First World War, the birth of his bulldog spirit, his ability to bounce back from disaster and his willingness to risk his life for good PR.
- The remarkable story of Churchill's return from the political wilderness to become the heroic war leader many still celebrate today.
- Looking at Churchill's Christmas visit to Washington, DC in 1941, during which he secured the support of US president Franklin Roosevelt.
- A look at Winston Churchill's final years and the reckless behaviour that threatened to undermine his legacy. However, when the end came, his state funeral was one of the largest Britain had ever seen.
- In 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill has led Britain to the brink of victory. Banking on his wartime popularity, he calls a general election, but he has mistaken the mood of the nation and finds himself with a real fight on his hands.
- In the port of Rye, Michael hears how a generation of lifeboatmen lost their lives in a 1928 rescue attempt and also learns about coastal defences. He travels across Romney Marsh to Dungeness and examines some curious concrete structures.
- 2010– 29m7.4 (5)TV Episode
- James and Irita shop for antiques along England's south coast in their classic 1960s Volvo. On their way to auction in Kent, James visits an experimental wartime listening post in Greatstone and Irita learns about a pioneering lighthouse.
- Experts breakdown the successes and mistakes made by the Germans in their invasion of France, the tactics employed by the British Navy in order to rescue the BEF and the political maneuverings in London
- 2021– 51mTV-147.8 (180)TV EpisodeThe U-Boats dominate the North Atlantic from 1939 wreaking havoc on shipping. We see the various tactics and developments which all-but neutralize the U-Boats in the North Atlantic by mid-1943
- In 1945 and 1946, the men of the British "War Crimes Investigation Unit" drove through northern Germany in search of Nazi criminals. One of them is Captain Anton Walter Freud, grandson of world-renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
- Surviving prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp told investigators that shortly before the end of the war, twenty children were taken out of the camp in a truck at night.
- Freud is determined to clarify the fate of the twenty children who were abused in the Neuengamme concentration camp for bestial human experiments.
- 79-year-old Jackie grew up in a Nazi concentration camp as a Jewish orphan and wants to know why he survived and wonders if any family escaped the Holocaust. Maureen wants to know if her father was actually an African American GI.
- The actor explores his paternal grandparents service in the British secret services and how they met and married in the Caribbean. He also looks at the stories of his maternal grandparents who fell in love during the Blitz.