The Great War

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving story of five men, all members of a unique...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, by chronicling how the story of the battle has...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of...