All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire

  • July 11, 1977
  • BBC One

• S01E02 Two Contrasting Wars

  • July 18, 1977
  • BBC One

• S01E03 Bismarck's Wars

  • July 25, 1977
  • BBC One

• S01E04 The First World War

  • August 1, 1977
  • BBC One

• S01E05 The Second World War

  • August 8, 1977
  • BBC One

  AJP Taylor, the noted historian and one of the first to popularise history through television, considers when World War II started and why.

• S01E06 The Cold War

  • August 15, 1977
  • BBC One