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- The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers and eventually the collapse of the Fourth Republic. It returned Charles de Gaulle to power but also almost saw his demise and twice brought civil strife to mainland France, and the fear of a military coup. It resulted in the deaths of at least one million Algerians and the exodus of as many European settlers. It was the last of the old style "colonial struggles" and the first of what would become the widespread wars of decolonization. It also marked the first practical application of what we today call counter-insurgency.
- The Nazi invasion of Russia. It was the biggest, bloodiest and bitterest battle ever fought. It cost the lives of at least 20 million people. Archive material and film footage from both sides are put together with rare interviews from Hitler's senior staff. Excellent WWII documentary on one of the biggest battles ever fought in human history.
- Tells not only of this important conflict that happened between March and May 1954 during the First Indochina War. It also relates the events leading up to that climactic confrontation relating a short history of the region and the people involved.
- This WWII documentary uses current location filming and authentic historic film clips to document the Battle of the Bulge, the last big German offensive in World War II, which was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg in December of 1944. The film also portrays the heroism, as well as the confusion and humiliation, that characterized both the Allied and the German troops. It contains rare or previously unseen archival film material as well as in-depth interviews with military leaders from both sides who gives their account of this battle.
- This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
- In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.
- Using rare newly found footage and eye-witness accounts from survivors, 'Battle for Warsaw' tells the tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives.
- Historical documentary on the American Civil War (1861-1865) featuring firsthand information from personal diaries, soldiers' letters, reminiscences, personal accounts, photographs, paintings, extensive footage of battlefields and historic locations, as well as interviews with leading historians and writers, and reenactments of many of the key campaigns. All this makes this title an authentic documentary of the Civil War.
- Using rare archival film clips and photographs, this film focuses heavily on biographical details of the remarkable life story of King Farouk (1920-1965), penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, overthrown in 1952 by Nasser's revolution.
- A visual chronicle of some of the most devastating weapons created for war.
- Series of six TV-programs looking at the medium of television through interviews with executives, producers, performers, pundits and viewers, and visits behind the scenes in studios throughout the world.
- The different worlds of Savile Row and Carnaby Street are presented with their varied history, bespoke tailors, independent fashion boutiques, fashion designers, stylists, etc.
- Hosted by international wine authority Baron Philippe de Rothschild, these six programs trace the story of different wines, Porto and Cognac, explore the fine points of wine-tasting, and examine the increasing popularity of wine.
- Shot on location in Assisi, Rome and Canterbury, the film provides a riveting insight into the life of St. Francis and the area of Italy where he lived. Portraying a man who changed the world, it shows Francis' appeal is as strong as ever.
- A biographical study of Marshall Josip Broz Tito and his leadership of Yugoslavia in two parts (1. 'Churchill's Man?' and 2. 'His Own Man').
- This historical documentary presents the background story to the making and testing of the first H-bomb. It contains rare archival film as well as notable contributions from many of the principal participants in the hydrogen bomb saga. The story is traced onwards from the first atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, through the Russian nuclear blast of September 1949 to the eventual successful detonation of a so-called thermo-nuclear device in the Pacific in November 1952 and the first full-scale H-bomb test in Bikini, in 1954.
- A two-part historical mini-series reflecting on the 1956 Suez Crisis with interviews with Julian Amery, David Ben-Gurion, Sir John Glubb, Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, Selwyn Lloyd, Robert Murphy, Anthony Nutting, Shimon Peres, and Kenneth Young.
- The background story to the making and testing of the first hydrogen bomb, with extended interviews with Edward Teller, theoretical physicist who is famously known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb".
- The Battle of Britain memorial flight plus a tribute to the Dakota (name earned from acronym DACoTA for Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft), as the British and the Australians designated the famous C-47 Skytrain military transport.
- The birth of the A-bomb and the incredible top-secret story that can now be told: from Nazi oppression which forced nuclear scientists to flee to the West to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- A history of fighter planes, including the YF-22A and other experimental military aircraft, from the first World War to Desert Storm: 1914-1991.
- Forward to Sumter tells the story of the background to the War (1861-65), its causes, particularly the impact of slavery: how North and South in the United States had been evolving into two separate societies and cultures, such that some form of conflict between them was perhaps inevitable.
- Bloody Stalemate deals with the early skirmishes and how the South fails to exploit its initial victory at Manassas, the North's decisive victory at Shiloh, the Battle of Antietam where more Americans died in a single day than on any field of battle before or since and concludes with President Lincoln's first Emancipation Proclamation.