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Categories: Drama: War & Disaster

  1. Kabul

    Thriller set against the backdrop of American troops leaving Afghanistan in 2021.

    BBC Four

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  2. Eye in the Sky

    A drone strike against Al-Shabaab militants is complicated when a child enters the zone.

    BBC One

  3. The Sentinels

    WWI. A French soldier is picked to join a top-secret army research project.

    BBC Four

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  4. Vermiglio

    The arrival of a Sicilian deserter has a profound effect in a remote Alpine village.

    BBC Four

  5. The Impossible

    A tsunami devastates the coast and separates members of a holidaying family of five.

    BBC Two

  6. Gold Run

    Resistance fighters smuggle gold reserves out of Norway before the Nazis invade.

    BBC Four

  7. A Farewell to Arms

    An American serving as an ambulance driver during World War I falls in love with a nurse.

    BBC Two

  8. Operation Crossbow

    A group of agents is sent on a mission to destroy a Nazi V-2 rocket base in Holland.

    BBC Two

  9. The Hurt Locker

    Powerful Oscar-winning drama about a US military unit in Iraq.

    BBC One

  10. I Was Monty's Double

    An officer resembling General Montgomery is persuaded to impersonate him. With John Mills.

    BBC Two

  11. Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

    Human dramas unfold behind the scenes of BBC radio news in the wartime London of 1940.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  12. Angels One Five

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

    BBC Two

  13. Our Girl

    Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.

    BBC One

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  14. Nach Fuar am Poll

    Chan eil Dòmhnall Chaluim airson ceistean a bhràthair mun Chogadh a fhreagairt sa mhòine.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

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  15. The World Will Tremble

    A group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from a Nazi death camp.

    BBC Two

  16. Nazis: The Road to Power

    The rise of fascism and the cult of the leader, in a Germany shattered by defeat.

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Quake

    Drama in 12 short parts. Inspired by the digital transformation in disaster response.

    BBC Radio 4

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