Joseph Stalin

What makes this film and Stalin’s funeral so fascinating is that we will never know how much of it was real and how much was staged. With the rise of ‘strong’ leaders backed by heavy propaganda all over the world, this docu is a quiet and unbiased look at our past, and a mirror to our future. – VM

In the midst of the Cold War the daughter of cruel Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, flees to the USA: its capitalist archenemy. The red tsar's favorite child soon becomes a media star in the US, but she can never truly escape her father's bloody shadow.

AJP Taylor, the renowned historian, appraises the performance of World War Two leaders. In this series he delivers his lectures to camera and without an autocue.

Spring 44: In the south of England, preparations for a gigantic amphibious operation are being completed in the greatest secrecy: the time has come for the Allies to liberate France from the Nazi occupation. At dawn on June 6th, thousands of ships set sail for the Normandy coast in the largest landing in history. Two months later, France's first army landed in Provence to pincer the routed...

As the Red Army approaches from the East and Allied forces advance from France and Belgium, Hitler reflects on the missteps that cost him the war.

Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler: the old lion" against the "German eagle". The "bear of Downing Street" versus "der Wolf". brimming with life plot twists and dramatic turns of events based on meticulously colored and remastered images."