4 Extra Debut. In Soviet Russia the Shaposhnikov family are about to feel the full impact of war. Starring Kenneth Branagh and Greta Scacchi. Show more

Viktor’s mother’s letter somehow finds its way to him and is a source of strength for him in days to come. Stars Janet Suzman. Show more

Krymov is posted to fight and Zhenya is evacuated – they can’t forget each other despite being miles apart. Stars David Tennant. Show more

Two young lovers long to be together. He is a pilot but will his flying mission reunite them? Stars Luke Treadaway. Show more

Liss is convinced that the Nazi and Soviet systems are more similar than their followers like to think. Starring Samuel West. Show more

Even faithful Communists were sent to the Gulag as Lyuda's ex-husband knows to his cost. Starring Malcolm Storry. Show more

Commissar Krymov is sent to tackle dissent in the 'rat-war' frontline battle at the heart of Stalingrad. Starring David Tennant. Show more

In a German field hospital, a young man contemplates life and struggles to make sense of the war. Starring Geoffrey Streatfeild. Show more

Novikov, a tank commander, prepares his troops for Operation Uranus, a critical campaign. Starring Don Gilet and Philip Jackson. Show more

As Krymov recovers from his head wound, he questions his own beliefs. Starring David Tennant and Kenneth Cranham. Show more

Krymov has been denounced and arrested while his ex-wife Zhenya faces the consequences of her actions. Starring Raquel Cassidy. Show more

As the Russian tanks encircle Stalingrad, Hitler refuses to allow German commanders to surrender. Stars Kenneth Cranham. Show more

Viktor's scientific breakthrough had not brought success, instead he’s accused of being 'anti-Soviet'. Stars Kenneth Branagh. Show more

Part one of Vasily Grossman's dark and honest account of the epic battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to his novel Life and Fate. Dramatised by Mike Walker. Show more

Part two of Vasily Grossman's dark and honest account of the epic battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to his novel Life and Fate. Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson. Show more

Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous gestation of Vasily Grossman's Soviet masterpiece Stalingrad through the tortuous process of state censorship & interference. Show more

Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous journey of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD to print. Victory over the Nazi’s brought neither freedom or truth. Show more

Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous publication of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD. By 1949 the novel was finished but Grossman's nightmare was just beginning. Show more

Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the troubled journey to print of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD. By 1951 revisions ran into 1000s of pages, would it ever see print? Show more

Historian Catherine Merridale concludes her chronicle of the tortuous journey of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD to print. Now published in 1953 it is savagely attacked. Show more