Documentary Series

The First World War (2003) – S1, Ep7 – Blockade

Blockade This history of the naval aspect of the war and how Germany’s blockade strategy eventually led to the United[…]

Breaking the Deadlock Attrition; “lions led by donkeys”, the slaughter only ceasing for a brief truce one Christmas – old,[…]

The Second World War Bethnal Green station was hit during the Blitz. Grocer’s daughter Eileen worked with Princess Elizabeth in[…]

The Georgians Tony travels back to the 1800s, meeting a 13-year-old girl who worked 14-hour shifts in a match factory,[…]

The Tudors How a knacker became an executioner, and how clothes were made. Finding Henry’s sunken ship the Mary Rose.[…]

Wild West This program recreates two carefully planned events in the old west that went horribly wrong; the Yonger Brother[…]

Guadalcanal The extra-ordinary stories of several Marines who defended Guadalcanal from seemingly overwhelming Japanese attacks are re-enacted.

D-Day Fallujah This joint American, British, and Iraqi offensive, called “Operation Phantom Fury” . . . was led by the[…]

Blitz Richard Holmes visits the sites that encapsulate the memory of a night of the Blitz.

Dunkirk Walking the French beaches from which thousands of British troops escaped capture.