PBS America (Freeview) Sunday

Maiya May learns about the severe impacts of droughts and floods on agriculture and the alarming depletion of groundwater reserves

An insight into the time of peace between the First and Second World Wars, how 20 years of peace and the forces reshaping the world produced another war

As the US and Great Britain began to increase their military holdings while keeping their vanquished foes under-armed, it was at the expense of a humiliated Germany

As Mussolini began his autocratic rule in Italy, technological advances were made across the world but not everyone embraced them with open arms

By the late 1920s, Europe appeared to have put the bad old days of economic strife behind them but a few voices warned that this boom time would have consequences

In the 1920s there seemed to be some good candidates for leadership in Europe but they all disappeared when the Great Depression hit and lives across the world were ruined

With the United States also suffering, Japan took the opportunity to increase their empire. Turning their attention to East Asia, they plotted the invasion of Manchuria

By the mid thirties, Adolf Hitler's ambitions seemed clear to all. If the great powers had acted earlier, would their intervention have prevented WW2?

As some tried to avoid repeating the disaster of the First World War through appeasement, Adolf Hitler had other ideas at the other end of the negotiating table

With rare archival footage and revealing interviews, this documentary tells the unknown stories of the women who enabled Allied victory