Learn about episode 1. Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern ...

In this first episode Michael Portillo examines how the German invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914 transformed Britain's war into a moral cause. Part of World War One on the BBC. Discover ...

Running at around 20 minutes, the interactive episode of Our World War is set during the attack on High Wood – part of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Against this backdrop, ...

British cruisers defeat a German pocket battleship at the Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement of World War II. April 8, 1940 Norway Invaded ...