History's Verdict

Churchill

59 min

Beginning with the fall of France in the Summer of 1940, and the defence of the island of Britain itself, Churchill's military decisions and simultaneous diplomatic efforts to gather an alliance, are explored. His defiant stand, at home and abroad, are central to his achievement, and his galvanising effect on his people and armed services is shown to be pivotal to British, and world, history

Roosevelt

59 min

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, leading America through a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

Hirohito

59 min

Extraordinary images, brilliant writing, the latest declassified information, witnesses from among the greatest historians, and the hitherto unknown words of the Emperor himself deliver History's Verdict on Hirohito.

Himmler

59 min

The infamous SS is also examined in detail. Were they just the machinery of murder? What other duties did they perform to help the Nazi war effort, and what about their sense of pride and code of honour? Writer Graham Birrell

Montgomery

60 min

Rarely explored aspects of his life will be uncovered: his childhood as the son of a Bishop and a mother who didn't love him. His near death experiences in the battlefields of the Great War. His campaign against the IRA in the 1920s, which gained him the respect of the Republicans he fought.

Patton

60 min

The son of a rich, distinguished family, the young Patton loved the Classics and history, was an Olympic athlete and "master of the Sword". But he also had revolutionary ideas about how the US Army should fight modern wars. Ideas he tested against reality in action in Mexico and the Great War.

De Gaulle

60 min

Charles De Gaulle was the leader of Free France from 1940-1944, and was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era. His memory continues to influence French Politics.

MacArthur

60 min

He was a US Army general who was also the only ever Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, and this symbolizes MacArthur's visionary belief that Asia would dominate the future of the world.

Rommel

60 min

Erwin Rommel has achieved almost legendary status as the German Field Marshall of World war Two? Mainly for his cunning in outwitting and outmanoeuvring his allied enemies he is now known as the desert fox.