The story of the older generation of revolutionaries who struggled hard in difficult conditions and harsh environments during the atomic bomb test in the early 1960s to realize China’s first dream of becoming a powerful country.
This remarkable series takes viewers back in time to pivotal battles of World Wars I and II, with an emphasis on tactics and technology. These battles were climactic moments when the fates of nations and countless men were sealed in a matter of minutes and hours. To this day, the reasons for victory or defeat are often enigmatic. Each episode peers into the fog of war to expose the myths, legends, and hidden truths of the great 20th Century military confrontations.
This ground-breaking series examines the lives of the leading Nazis, in an effort to answer the question, why did it happen? It explores and tries to understand the incredible transformation of educated men into Nazi criminals, by charting the lives of six people who over the course of 20 years descend into moral oblivion.
Documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of the occupiers. Five countries from the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Fifty years later, five directors from these five countries shoot five short films about the invasion from the perspective of the people who played the part of the occupiers.
The story revolves around journalist Mai El-Gebali, who decides to write a book about a serial killer sentenced to death. With the help of one of her lovers, who has close ties to the security services, she succeeds in securing weekly meetings with the serial killer Mahmoud Helmy, who exposes the secrets of this nightmarish world.
The extended version of the eponymous film served as a TV mini-series. The plot is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
Michael Portillo charts the War of Independence in Ireland, following the journey from the Peace Conference in Versailles to the historic ceasefire in 1921.
Berlin 1933 – Diary Of A Metropolis tells the story of how Berlin, the vibrant hub of modernity, became Germany's staunch capital city in step with the Third Reich. Contemporary journals, letters and documents, photographs and film material, form a dense collage of the dynamics of this collectively organised disaster.
The history of warfare from antiquity to the Falklands War; each episode looks at warfare from the perspective of different participants: infantryman, artillerist, cavalryman, tanker, airman, guerrilla, surgeon, logistician and commander.