Movies

Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi...

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has...

Season 6 Christmas Special - Christmas 1945 marks the first peaceful holiday since the war. James must handle the Darrowby Nativity play while Helen...

This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found...

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to...

Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life similar to, but different from, his own.

A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000...

Season 4 Christmas Special - Faced with a daunting future, James longs to see Helen, but an injured bird stands in his way. Siegfried and Carmody try...

Documentary on the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–1908.

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home...

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is...

An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 1914 Christmas truce and gives him a new perspective...

Find out what went on behind the stately walls of the British manor house a century ago.

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe...

Season 3 Christmas Special - As Christmastime is overshadowed by war, the Farnons have taken in a refugee child. Siegfried must choose between the...

Documentary about the mysterious death of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya in 2006.

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an absorbing examination of the events that followed. 1945: Germany is beaten...