Stalin Murder

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime.

Fiona Shaw narrates this exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a tale that set the scene for one of the world's most enigmatic figures, and his vision of modern Russia. From a tyrannical grip on ordinary citizens to rampant corruption at the highest level, this film reveals the secrets behind holding the world's largest country together in a narrative that takes in the KGB and its ancestors as well as Stalin, murder and gulags.

Here is the ultimate synchronisation of details and events which signalled the last six months of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. It involved over 100 countries, it killed 50 million people and absorbed six years of struggle and bloodshed for the peoples of half the globe.

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.

A four-part series chronicles the history of terrorism around the world. Violence has been used as a political tool for centuries, but it took on a new tenor in the 20th century. From the Russian Revolution to today, this extraordinary series goes behind the scenes of some of the most infamous groups to see how terrorism made history and transformed society in the last 100 years. Presented by Roger Mudd, each thrilling episode draws on interviews with law enforcement agents, former activists and terrorists, and esteemed scholars, as well as extraordinary footage of some of the most infamous events of the century.

Nazi collaborators, driven by greed, survival instincts or ideology, from Jewish leaders offering labor to politicians aiding Nazis against their countrymen, unraveling their complex motivations during WWII.

Series honors the incredible heroes of World War II who stood up and fought when everything else seemed lost.