Featuring large-scale reconstruction of key events, dramatized eyewitness accounts, plus rare archive film and period imagery, these unique programs tell the powerful stories behind three great civil wars that tore nations apart: the Spanish conflict that brought Franco to power; Cromwell's war on the English throne; and, the American Civil War.

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The American Civil War : The cause of the war -- European immigrants -- Abolition of slavery -- The first battles -- A call to arms -- Infantry tactics -- Trench warfare -- Cavalry charges -- General Grant moves South -- The Peninsular campaign -- Battle at Antietam -- The Emancipation proclamation -- The Confederate Navy -- The Chancellorsville Campaign -- General Lee invades the North -- The Battle of Gettysburg -- Grant's battle plan -- The South surrenders at Appomattox / written by Stuart Reid, Alfred Bellard, Simon Kirk ; director, Graham Holloway, Jeremy Freeston ; producer, Bob Carruthers The English Civil War : Factors leading to war -- King Charles I -- Religious reform -- The Bishop's wars -- Constitutional reform -- The Armies -- The outbreak of war -- 1643 : the Royalist high tide -- 1644 The Scots -- Battle of Marston Moor -- 1645 : Parliment's victory -- The second Civil War -- The trial / writers, Stuart Reid, Bob Carruthers ; director, Graham Holloway ; producer, Bob Carruthers The Spanish Civil War : the last great cause : The International Brigade -- The Anarchist movement -- Franco declares martial law -- Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo -- The Battle of Madrid -- La Pasionaria -- Italian and Geman Air strikes -- The non-intervention policy -- Terrible conditions of the war -- The bombing of Guernica -- The Battle of Brunete -- Dispelled idealism -- Republican attack on Teruel -- Italian bombing of Barcelona -- Battle of the River Ebro -- The Munich Agreement -- Ernest Hemingway's role in the war -- Republican defeat / written, produced & directed by Mike Leighton.