An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots" chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.

A documentary series on combat ships through the ages, from the 16th century to the present day.

Profiling the boys who lied about their age in order to enlist in World War II.

Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and RussiaSummary: The Winter War was an epic life and death struggle that changed the course of World War II, and saved a democracy. Fire and Ice documents this timeless story of courage ...

A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.

The story of how a secret agent training school established in Canada during World War Two - and the training manual created specifically for it - laid the foundations for modern espionage in North America and gave birth to the CIA.

Nazi Titanic is the amazing and unknown story of one of the most bizarre chapters of WWII. In the middle of the war, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who was fascinated by the Titanic, decided to make a movie based on the sinking of the ship. This movie was so large in its scale, the Nazis were forced to divert men, materials and ships from their war effort in order to complete the film.

Exploring the minds of two of the 20th century's most brutal dictators and mass murderers, Adolf Hitler & Joseph Stalin. Based on recent psychological and medical studies, this program explores the personalities of these ruthless leaders, who were directly responsible for around sixty millions of deaths, their paranoia, suspiciousness, cold blooded actions and lack of human feeling.

A look at the tactics employed to pass strategically important ships under the nose of the enemy, and the use of intelligence to carry out naval attacks.

This is a documentary about unsung heroes of World War II. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler's personal super-code machine - not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his 'secrets writer'.

Not only people from the Allied nations during World War 2 fight against the Axis nations, there were also many who were born in those nations who took up arms against what they believed was wrong.

Ten individuals, ten dramatic stories, ten extraordinary days, all leading to the big historical event: the end of the worst war the world has ever known, World War 2.

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in this WWII drama.

A small group of Allied commandos must parachute into enemy occupied Europe and recover the information a female spy was carrying, at all costs. They soon realize that this would be the easy part of the mission.

In February 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and Martha Sharp, a trained social worker, boldly commit to a life-threatening mission in Europe to assist refugees.

"Royals at War" examines the strategies used by the royal families of Europe during World War II in the face of increasingly powerful nationalist parties. Connected by family ties, the families witnessed the rise of power of Fascism and Nazism and found themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, at the centre of Hitler's political scheming. The two episodes will recount the various families' ambiguous and difficult dealings with these untrustworthy powers. After long procrastination, when war finally broke out, each royal family had to make a crucial decision for their country: whether to resist or collaborate.

A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He's a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it's coveted reciprocity.