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During the Nazi occupation of eastern Poland, a small group of Jews tried to save themselves by hiding in the sewers under the city. Four survivors talk about their fourteen-month ordeal of living below ground.
Leading historian Eric Hobsbawn offers Peter France some insights into his personal understanding of the 19th century and, in the process a world that was about to disappear for ever.
It has always been believed that the attack on Pearl Harbour was a total surprise, but witnesses from around the world are now coming forward with stories of Washington being repeatedly warned of the attack.
Documentary revealing new evidence about the so-called "Night of the Long Knives" - Harold MacMillan's Cabinet re-shuffle of July 1962, in which he sacked the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a third of the Cabinet.
Documentary exploring how poverty in the English countryside in the years before the First World War, has been hidden behind an image of a rural paradise created by artists, writers and poets of the period which survives to the present day, as demonstrated by the huge success of Edith Holden's "Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady"
Documentary on the life and ideas of Leon Trotsky
Traces the story of the implementation of Mussolini's policy of Italianisation in the Balkans.
Second and concluding programme in Timewatch's investigation into some of Italy's war crimes and those responsible, in this programme concentrating in particular on Allied blocking of extradition of known Italian war criminals and reluctance to pursue the perpetrators, many of whom by then held key positions in the Italian government. The effects this had on the defascistisation policy implemented in Italy after the surrender is discussed by leading historians.
