January 11, 1989 • 1h
During the Nazi occupation of eastern Poland, a small group of Jews in the city of Lvov tried to save themselves from the death ca...Read more
February 8, 1989 • 50m
What effect did Charlie Chaplin have on the sale of tea? What first caused the sudden and surprising popularity of tennis and golf...Read more
April 5, 1989 • 1h 10m
For nearly 50 years the world has been led to believe President Roosevelt's statement that the attack was a total surprise and com...Read more
May 3, 1989 • 50m
Two stories reflect the contribution made to history by non-professionals. BRITISH AND GUARANTEED: A look at those who re-create ...Read more
May 31, 1989 • 50m
Two eyewitness accounts of the past - 500 years apart. The 15th-century letters of Margaret Paston push aside people's misconcept...Read more
July 27, 1989 • 1h
In July 1962, Harold Macmillan sacked a third of his Cabinet, including Chancellor of the Exchequer and some of his oldest politic...Read more
August 9, 1989 • 1h
Did the atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki really shorten the war and save Allied lives? Based on American archive r...Read more
September 6, 1989 • 50m
England's land was green but never pleasant. So why do villages and fields conjure up a happy, wholesome past? This film unravels ...Read more
October 4, 1989 • 1h
Leon Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution and creator of the Red Army. Brilliant and eloquent, and expected...Read more
November 1, 1989 • 50m
During the Second World War, Italian forces in Yugoslavia murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians. Historians have now exposed...Read more
November 8, 1989 • 50m
At the end of the Second World War, conclusive evidence of war crimes was presented against more than 1,200 high-ranking Italian F...Read more