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Categories: Drama: War & Disaster

  1. Land Girls

    Drama following the lives and loves of four girls in the Women's Land Army.

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  2. Secret Army

    Drama about a covert group helping allied airmen shot down in 1940s occupied Europe.

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  3. Wings

    Drama about the men of the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.

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  4. Tenko

    Drama based on the experiences of a group of women who are taken as prisoners of war.

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  5. Survivors

    Drama series set among the survivors of a deadly global virus.

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  6. Colditz

    Drama about allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the escape-proof Colditz Castle.

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  7. Our Girl

    Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.

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  8. Private Peaceful

    Robson Green reads Michael Morpurgo's powerful book of brotherly love during war

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  9. The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

    Stories of life during the Second World War, read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

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  10. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

    Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war classic tells of an innocent abroad who falls into enemy hands

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  11. Band of Brothers

    Wartime drama series about America's elite paratroop regiment

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  12. Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag

    Damian Lewis reads Ben Macintyre's story about a British wartime double agent

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  13. Occupation

    Powerful drama that spans the five years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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  14. Dunkirk

    Drama following events at Dunkirk in May and June 1940

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  15. Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field

    Four soldiers hide out in rural France in August 1914. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill

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  16. The Sinking of the Laconia

    After sinking the Laconia, a U-Boat attempts to save the civilian crew.

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  17. Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear

    Engineer Mr Graham runs for his life across war-torn Europe. Classic 1940s thriller.

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  18. The Other Side of the Hill

    Peter Luke's plays about the 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of Wellington.

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  19. The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier

    When the Germans invade Poland in 1939, the Balicki family are suddenly torn apart by war.

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  20. Nevil Shute - On the Beach

    Post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel by British-Australian author Nevil Shute

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  21. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

    Joseph Heller's satirical Second World War-set novel.

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  22. Bomber - Len Deighton

    18th February 1943: RAF Lancaster crews plan a bombing raid over Germany

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  23. Birdsong

    Epic love story set against the First World War, based on Sebastian Faulks' novel.

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  24. James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy

    By James Fenimore Cooper. A family are torn apart by the American War of Independence

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  25. Nicholas Monsarrat - The Cruel Sea

    Searing tale of the Second World War in the North Atlantic. Stars Jonathan Coy

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  26. Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices

    The human dramas and follies behind the scenes of the wartime 麻豆社 News.

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  27. Generation War: Our Mothers, Our Fathers

    The story of five German friends in the years from 1941 to 1945.

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  28. 1864

    Drama series about the Second Schleswig War.

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  29. The Passing Bells

    World War I drama. At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.

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  30. Virginia Baily - Early One Morning Omnibus

    Greta Scacchi and Juliet Aubrey star in this wartime tale set in Italy.

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  31. John Hersey - Hiroshima

    Recollections of six survivors of the world's first atomic bomb drop.

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  32. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Omnibus)

    The tumultous period in US history as seen through teenage Cavalry recruits in the 1850s

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  33. The Monocled Mutineer

    A dramatisation of the life of Percy Toplis.

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  34. The White Queen

    Drama set during the War of the Roses, one of the bloodiest wars in English history.

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  35. 37 Days

    Three-part factual drama of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.

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  36. Our World War

    Tense combat drama series revealing experiences of British soldiers in World War One.

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  37. The Diary of Anne Frank

    A four-part adaptation of one of the most heart-rending stories of World War II.

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  38. Tumbledown

    Drama about Scots Guards officer Robert Lawrence, who was badly wounded in the Falklands.

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  39. Kandahar

    An Afghani reporter returns to Afghanistan to rescue her suicidal landmine victim sister.

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  40. Aimee and Jaguar

    Drama based on the memoirs of Lilly Wust about a passionate wartime affair.

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  41. No Man's Land

    A Bosnian soldier, caught between the frontlines, hides in an abandoned trench.

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  42. The Bunker

    World War Two horror. Seven German soldiers realise they are trapped in a concrete bunker.

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  43. In Which We Serve

    Noel Coward stars in the story of HMS Torrin, from its construction to its final sinking.

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  44. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    Classic epic about the life and loves of a reactionary army officer, with Roger Livesey.

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  45. The Colditz Story

    Dramatisation of the legendary breakout by World War II Allied POWs from Colditz Castle.

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  46. The Man Who Never Was

    A British intelligence officer plans an elaborate hoax on the Nazis. With Clifton Webb.

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    Yellow Canary

    Wartime thriller set aboard a Canada-bound ship. Starring Richard Greene and Anna Neagle.

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  48. The Triple Cross

    World War II adventure based on the real-life exploits of double agent Eddie Chapman.

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  49. Charlotte Fyfe - The Tears of War

    The true First World War love story of May Wedderburn Cannan and Bevil Quiller-Couch.

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  50. Nuremberg Trials

    Docudrama about the 1945 war crimes trial featuring eyewitness accounts.

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