The World Wars

Hitler's rise to power, told through the personal writings of those who lived through it.

How Hitler seized, kept and fell from power - and the postwar manhunt for war criminals.

Journey back in time to Berlin's most fateful year.

Jordan Dunbar explores how the Battle of the Somme affects people and communities today.

The Allies launch a high-stakes invasion of Nazi-occupied France to win the war.

A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

Revealing the heroic spies who helped contribute to victory in WWII.

Martin Shaw retraces the 1943 raid which used bouncing bombs to destroy German dams.

A look at the life of Gordon Welchman, a codebreaker crucial to the defeat of the Nazis.

American reporter Ed Murrow returns to London where he spent much of World War II. (1959)

Some of the last survivors of the Blitz, children who weren't evacuated, tell their story.

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived through the Blitz.

Reeling from World War I, residents feel the impact of a new political party, the Nazis.

Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.

Using new evidence, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust.

1959 documentary showing images of a Liverpool still recovering from the post-war gloom.

Frank Brent, an NCO with the Australian Imperial Force, fought at Gallipoli.

Following seven leading artists as they paint seven survivors of the Holocaust.

Never-before-seen footage from interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War.

Eighty years on, Rachel Burden hears the stories and memories of the UK's D-Day veterans.