Categories: Drama - All Programmes

The High and the Mighty

A flight from Hawaii to California runs into trouble when an engine fails.

BBC Two

Rescue Dawn

Christian Bale stars in this drama following a US fighter pilot's struggle for survival.

BBC Two

The Counterfeiters

A counterfeiter is forced to forge foreign money in a Nazi concentration camp.

BBC Four

Madame Pimpernel

Drama. Two women in occupied Paris team up to help Allied aviators escape from the city.

BBC Two

They Were Not Divided

Two men enlisted in the Welsh Guards form a friendship that carries them through WWII.

BBC Two

First Light

The story of one of the youngest Spitfire pilots to fight in the Battle of Britain.

BBC Two

The Dam Busters

The true story of the WWII bombing of the Ruhr dams in Germany.

BBC Two

The Odd Angry Shot

Follows the tour of duty of Australian soldier Bill as he is sent to Vietnam in 1969.

BBC Two

The Red Baron

World War One drama about dashing flying ace Manfred von Richthofen.

BBC Two

Female Agents

A group of French servicewomen try to rescue a British army geologist in Normandy.

BBC Four

When Time Ran Out

A volcano causes havoc on an idyllic holiday island in the South Pacific.

BBC Two

The Quiet American

BBC Two

The Swarm

An entomologist discovers that a swarm of killer bees is heading straight for Houston.

BBC Four

The Story of GI Joe

Experienced Lt Walker leads a unit of raw recruits from Tunisia to Italy during WWII.

BBC Two

Jarhead

Drama based on an ex-US Marine's memoir about his experiences during the Gulf War.

BBC Three

Defiance

Daniel Craig stars in this true story about Jewish partisans trying to escape Nazi forces.

BBC Two

Bombardier

The story of the training and flying techniques used by US bombing crews.

BBC Two

The Great Raid

War drama recreating the dramatic rescue of more than 500 American prisoners of war.

BBC One

Lebanon

In 1982, four Israeli soldiers are sent in a tank to clear a town of Lebanese citizens.

BBC Four

Passchendaele

A wounded soldier, honourably discharged and working to recruit troops, re-enlists.

BBC Two

War Requiem

Film with no spoken dialogue which follows the music and lyrics of Britten's War Requiem.

BBC Four

Downfall

In his Berlin bunker, an increasingly unhinged Hitler readies himself for the end.

BBC Two

Flame and Citron

Drama set in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen in 1944 about two resistance fighters.

BBC Four

The War Lover

WWII drama in which a bomber pilot discovers a taste for reckless daring.

BBC Two

The Red Beret

An ex-US army officer with a mysterious past joins the British forces as a paratrooper.

BBC Two

City of Life and Death

Drama telling the horrifying story of the 'Rape of Nanking' in China in 1937.

BBC Four

Free Men

An Algerian immigrant in Paris is pressured by the police to spy in a mosque during WWII.

BBC Two

War Horse

A farm horse is requisitioned by the army to serve at the front during wartime.

BBC One

Churchill's First World War

Drama-documentary about Winston Churchill's experiences during the First World War.

BBC Four

The Long and the Short and the Tall

A British patrol in the Burmese jungle fall out when they capture a Japanese soldier.

BBC Two

Angels One Five

Following the operations room of a fighter station in World War II. With Jack Hawkins.

BBC Two

Private Peaceful

Two brothers (Jack O'Connell and George MacKay) are called up to fight in World War I.

BBC Two

In Darkness

A man hides Jewish refugees in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv in Poland.

BBC Four

San Demetrio London

A tanker struggles to deliver its cargo to England during the Battle of the Atlantic.

BBC Two

Great Day

A village prepares for a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt.

BBC Two

Red Tails

Italy, 1944. A segregated squadron of African American airmen face their German foes.

BBC One