War & Politics

Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his ...

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.

Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist ...

Day by day chronicle of World War Two.

The life of Osman Bey, the son of Ertugrul Gazi and the founder of the Ottoman Empire.

The series dramatically documents the last era of the Mamluk state and its fall by the Ottomans in the early 16th century, highlighting a period ...

A story that follows a crown prince who faces enemies from all sides and falls in love with a maidservant who wants to kill him. He is a son ...

Simon Reeve begins his most ambitious journey yet, travelling the entire length of the Americas

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral ...

This hit podcast turned TV show features four of the BBC’s wittiest political commentators, bringing you the most digestible explanations ...

In a landmark 7-part series, Spotlight – Northern Ireland’s leading team of investigative journalists – reveal important new ...

This outstanding and sensitive drama series tells a young and family audience the stories of children who lived through a most difficult era in ...

Zhang Neng Liang is a fuerdai (second generation rich) who fails the university entrance exams and joins the People’s Liberation Army as a member ...

The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War.

Eye-witness veteran testimony from men who served under fire on the frontline

When social upheaval sweeps Russia in the early 20th century, Czar Nicholas II resists change, sparking a revolution and ending a dynasty.

Lurking In Before Dawn

In the forgotten margins of the segregated communities of a dystopian future, a woman searches for the daughter that she lost upon her arrest ...

Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani ...

In 1994, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio’s assassination sends his dying widow racing to uncover who did it.

Polina Lebedeva, daughter of the childless prince Alexei Petrovich Golovin, is the most enviable bride of the Yamburg district. During the ball ...

1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the ...

Activists follows the years from 1899 to 1906 when Finland as an independent nation started to form. At the center stage are young restless souls ...

Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French ...

Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes ...

Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico’s Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the ...

The story of the turbulent interwar years, the years between the first two world wars, brought to life through the real experiences of thirteen ...

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job ...

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

The training programme of one of World War Two’s most covert organisations, the Special Operations Executive or SEO, is resurrected.

In humanity’s distant future, two interstellar states—the monarchic Galactic Empire and the democratic Free Planets Alliance—are embroiled ...

While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of ...