Narrow Escapes of WWII

The Penal Battalion

August 2025 •Russian

Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.

Na De Bevrijding

August 2025 •Dutch

'Allo 'Allo!

August 2025 •English

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Voices of Liberation

August 2025 •English

The writings and eyewitness accounts of wartime participants help trace the story of Europe's liberation during WWII in this historical docuseries.

Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West

August 2025 •French

May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse?

Land Girls

August 2025 •English

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

The Abyss – Rise and Fall of the Nazis

August 2025 •German

Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to conquer Germany and then half of Europe in the wake of World War I.

Decision

August 2025 •Japanese

Manhattan

August 2025 •English

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

The World Wars

August 2025 •English

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.

Rise of the Nazis

August 2025 •English

How did 20th Century Europe's most liberal democracy fall into the hands of fascists? From Hitler's political scheming that turned Germany's parliament into a House of Cards, his War on Truth leading to book burning, and his scapegoating of minorities, this series explores in extraordinary detail the events leading up to the outbreak of World War II.

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

August 2025 •English

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the death of Queen Victoria to the end of the Second World War. It was a follow-up to his 2007 series Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain.

Löwengrube

August 2025 •German

"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.

Secret Army

August 2025 •English

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Tenko

August 2025 •English

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Buried Secrets of WWII

August 2025 •English

Remote sensing techniques tell the stories of WWII battles and campaigns, the details of which have been lost in the fog of war, misinterpreted or overtaken by the landscape.

World War I at Home

August 2025 •English

Stories about the impact of World War I around the regions.

Kronika

August 2025 •Slovak

V tieni vlkov

August 2025 •Slovak

WWII: The Lost Color Archives

August 2025 •English