Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant.

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...