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Tracing the origins of anti-government extremism by examining a deadly series of historical events that galvanized far right radicals to take violent action.

June 21, 1941, Brest fortress. Lieutenant Andrey Kizhevatov, Major Pyotr Gavrilov and Commissar Yefim Fomin were engaged in daily business. There was also a boy trumpeter Sasha Akimov from the regimental orchestra, who secretly smoked and selflessly loved the girl Vera. None of the servicemen knew that the next morning they would become the commanders of the last three hotbeds of resistance, and the boy was the only link between them in the stone cauldron of the first object of attack by Nazi troops in the USSR, the Brest Fortress.

May 1945: With the end of the war and the surrender of the Third Reich, the world discovered the full horror of a genocidal system on a scale never before seen in the history of humanity. The elimination of millions of individuals had been meticulously planned by a regime whose organization and methods were just beginning to be understood.

After the end of the war, the Polish authorities try to detain the head of the Warsaw Gestapo.

Before the events of "Historic Parking 1: The Separation of Panama from Colombia" set in 1903, there was an attempt to build a French Canal in 1881, which went through tragedy, bankruptcy and international political intrigue that impacted worldwide and lit the spark that eventually exploded into the events of the Independence of Panama from Colombia.

Capturing the spirit of the age and the turmoil of the times, Sword of Honour tells the heartbreaking story of a nation at war, the soldiers who left their families to fight, the social upheaval and the emotionally perilous journey back home.

All Costs Paid is a Soviet TV miniseries produced by Studio Ekran. The director Aleksei Saltykov well known for his film The Chairman with Mikhail Ulyanov, an acclaimed Russian actor playing a main character. All Costs Paid is one of the first Soviet feature films that shows the war in Afghanistan. Film has unusually truthful point of view on that period of Soviet Era and on the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

The White Horse is a Russian TV serial broadcast in 1993. The film, in 10 episodes, was directed by Gelii Ryabov. It presents the Russian civil war in Siberia from 1917–1920 and the struggle of the White Russians under the command of Admiral Alexander Kolchak against the Bolshevik forces, until his final defeat.

Claude Legault heads to places infused with memories, wonderful reminders of the country's unsung role during World War II, to gather touching, human and often unimaginable stories about Canada's participation and the people who lived through it.

Join Tucker Carlson and his team as their cameras take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, ‘Tucker Carlson Originals’

For Palestinians, 1948 marks the “Nakba” or “catastrophe”, when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. For Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state. This four-part series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.

In 2200 AD, the earth's unified government began to implement the space autonomous region construction plan, and officially entered the space colonization era in 2211 AD. After 2300 AD, humans have established more than 300 space autonomous regions, floating in the vast solar system. For hundreds of years, the earth, the moon, Mars, and the space pirate organization have become the four major forces in the universe, and the four forces see each other. In the end, can human beings break through their own destiny of struggle, and can they truly enter a new century in history?

How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.

Top Tens of Warfare tells the story of modern age warfare in ten episodes. Each episode is dedicated to the top ten of military inventions, vessels, battles, aircraft, weapons, secrets, tanks, fighting forces, commanders and leaders and shows how they all influenced and changed the way we lived. —Kalla

A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geography of Europe and sowed the seeds of a deep antagonism between France and Germany that culminated in two world wars. Excerpts from the diaries of the witnesses, photographs and painted panoramas tell the truth about a forgotten war.

The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this stunning collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. Actual footage from all sides of the war in color. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theatres where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world.

War veteran Franz Tunda tells his life story.

Reactionary and aggressive circles in the United States are trying to establish a dictatorship in the country, preparing to assassinate the president and introduce a state of emergency in the country. The conspiracy is led by the FBI director...

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Historian Dan Snow relives the story of a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany in World War Two using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb.

1941. Trying to escape from unhappy love, Pavel Zhilin, a first-year student, gets into the border guard shortly before the Nazi invasion. However, love overtakes him there: having survived the German offensive, Zhilin does everything possible to save his beloved and her newly-made husband.

A documentary series that tells the story of the rise and fall of the Pujol family: a story of politics, corruption and the portrait of a Catalonian society who saw in Jordi Pujol, the head of the Catalonian government between 1980 and 2003.

During King Ekkathat’s reign, the mischievous Mang Mao repeatedly escapes arranged dates, only to clash with Sri Khan Thin—unaware he is actually Khan Thong, a young man in disguise investigating his parents’ mysterious deaths—leading to chaos, hidden identities, and unexpected encounters.

Taking place just after the end of Bosnian War, the series is mostly set in a kafana named Složna braća owned by Halimić brothers and located on a small patch of UN-controlled territory (covering 0.0657 km2) not claimed by any of the three warring sides. Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats, otherwise very hostile to each other following a ferocious civil war, regularly visit the said kafana in no man's land in order to arrange mutual black market activities (weapons and food trade, oil and cigarette smuggling, etc.). When the word gets around about an important weapons shipment passing through the territory that can supposedly completely change the division of power in the Balkans, the place becomes a lively hub of espionage, deal making, and skulduggery.

The first war drama series the Ukrainian TV channel 2+2 which was filmed during a full-scale war in Ukraine. The lead characters are the emergency paramedics, who were rescuing people of their city under continuous shelling and bombing

A 2007 Iranian television series produced in cooperation with Hungary, France, and Lebanon. Set in Nazi-occupied Paris, it follows Habib, an Iranian student who falls deeply in love with a French Jewish woman. When her life is threatened, he enlists the help of an Iranian diplomat to forge passports and smuggle her to safety — a story inspired by the real heroism of diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari.

During the Second World War, a Soviet plane crashes in the territory occupied by the Germans, but the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved radio operator Katya, who were flying in it on a mission, miraculously escape. Navigator Linko also managed to survive. Each of them will now have to find their own way to complete a combat mission, return to their own and survive...

A fictional courtroom drama which shows how the trial of Pádraig Pearse, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, might have gone.

We follow six gruelling months as a platoon prepares for possible frontline deployment.

The life of a group of men who patrolled the Atacama Desert during the Saltpeter War.

The end of the Continuation War in 1944 on the Karelian Isthmus. The story of the men who cook food on the front lines – the kitchen crew. The series also tells the story of Tauno's family during the war. The children are small and his wife is in the final stages of pregnancy. Tauno's daughter, Hilka, provides insight into a child's experience of war.

A three-part docuseries about US First Lady Melania Trump, a companion to her 2026 documentary film.

This journey through time retraces fourteen centuries of a rich shared history between Jews and Muslims. A story of great historical rigor, without concessions or bias, driven by fluid and inspired realization.

The series tells the story of several young people who are heading to war zones to perform in theater. In the area, enemy forces mistake one of these young people, Garzin Beghzin, played by Majid Salehi, for the headquarters commander.

Politics Now was a Scottish political programme produced and broadcast by STV in northern and central Scotland. The programme, broadcast for 40 weeks of the year, on a Thursday evenings after the main ITV news, covered all of the big Political developments in Westminster, Brussels and Holyrood in detail. The programme was presented by STV's political editor Bernard Ponsonby with features reports and contributions from the rest of STV's political unit - Westminster correspondent Harry Smith, political correspondent Jamie Livingstone and freelance reporter David Torrance. The programme was originally presented by former political correspondent Michael Crow until his departure from the station in January 2009. The series was replaced in 2011 by Scotland Tonight, which broadcast Mondays to Thursdays on STV covering current affairs and politics.

Fredrik Lindström investigates how Sweden would be if some historical events had never happened.