1983 – The Brink of Apocalypse follows events of November 1983 when the Third World War nearly erupted …by accident. “We may have been at the brink of nuclear war and not even known it,” declares Robert Gates, a key interviewee for the programme. Gates was deputy director of intelligence of the CIA at the time. He is now US Secretary of Defense. 

Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.

Forty years ago a speech of immense inflammatory power wrenched British society apart. Known as “Rivers of Blood”, it was delivered by maverick Conservative MP Enoch Powell. While his immediate popularity soared, the racist tone of the speech shut down all debate on immigration and ultimately ended Powell’s career. This film assesses the impact of the speech and traces its effect on immigration policy and the rise of multiculturalism

When the nation was called to arms in a spirit of patriotic fervour in August 1914, it was difficult to imagine that just four years later almost half a million British children would have lost their fathers in battle. To boys and girls brought up on the heroism and invincibility of the British army it was a profound shock that lasted a lifetime. In this film men and women now in their nineties revisit the experience and emotion of loss and reflect on the way in which these childhood experiences shaped their lives.