Mabo's legacy resulted in the Native Title Act of Australia of 1993 - an important step forward for the country in land use, access and ownership.

Eddie Koiki Mabo won his way into history when the highest court in the country ruled in his favour and disproved the law of terra nullius.

Eddie Koiki Mabo was more than just a court case. Through the eyes of his daughter Gail Mabo we take a personal look into the man who was an obstinate, passionate family man and who was consumed with fighting for the culture and ownership of a tiny island in the Torres Strait.

Through the 60s and 70s the Land Rights movement erupted onto the streets across the nation. The Gurindji people walked off Vesty's station and the Aboriginal people of Wreck Bay rejected the government's offer of a lease, stating they wanted full title over their land. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations the dream of regaining their land again was becoming a reality.

A look at how Tsar Nicholas II and his wife the Empress Alexandra's complete misjudgement and lack of understanding led to the fall of the Russian Empire from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. We explore how their decisions during the war led to widespread public anger and a revolution that would eventually bring a tragic and brutal end to Tsar Nicholas' reign, making him the last Emperor of Russia. Broadcast title: The Tsar and Empress: Secret Letters.

For 70 years, rumours have circulated around the small town of Walbrzych in south-west Poland about a concealed Nazi railway tunnel. How, in 1945, the original tunnel was fortified by the retreating German army with 10m of reinforced concrete, and its entrances blown up. And how anyone who spoke of the tunnel was either shot by the Nazis or pursued by the Russians after the war. Naturally, they fell silent - and the tunnel's precise location was lost in the mists of time. Then, in August 2015, ground penetrating radar pinpointed the tunnel's location. It's the 21st century equivalent of an unexplored pharaoh's tomb.

From teenage infatuation to her wedding to Hitler and suicide in the fuhrerbunker - Adolf and Eva: Love and War reveals the shocking lengths to which Nazi Germany's secret First Lady went to rise to, and cling to, power. The Nazis kept Eva Braun's affair with Hitler hidden until the very end. But the Fuhrer's inner circle knew she had survived against the odds to become the most powerful woman in Germany. Revealing the truth behind the influential, ambitious and manipulative Nazi bride, this is the story of Eva's incredible rise - and dramatic fall.

At look at the obstacles Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra overcame during what was a rather unconventional start to their royal relationship. But having survived the challenges of a long-distance relationship, as well as incompatible religious upbringings, their relationship blossomed and the two were eventually married as the young tsar assumed control of the Russian Empire. Broadcast title: The Tsar and Empress: Secret Letters.

United in war, the Allies would reveal themselves as divided rivals in peace. How can such a failure of a real effort at entente be explained? With the Yalta Conference in 1945 to 1953, discover a new world order drawn up by three men.

Examine how the seeds of Vietnam's future were sown while it was still a colony of France. After the defeat of the occupying Japanese forces in World War II, Vietnam became an unstable land, a land where new alliances were forged and the balance of power continually shifted during its war of independence against the returning French. Long held resentments and beliefs would foster the conflicts still to come; conflicts that would give this small, remote country a central place in world history.

United in war, the Allies would reveal themselves as divided rivals in peace. How can such a failure of a real effort at entente be explained? With the Yalta Conference in 1945 to 1953, discover a new world order drawn up by three men.

After the defeat of the French and the division of Vietnam into communist North and democratic South, the Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh began a campaign to unite the country under his rule. In 1960 he restarted the war. The threat of another country falling to communism proved enough to draw the US into the conflict. Vietnam became a battlefield for the Cold War, a place where communism confronted the free world.

Directed by Angelina Jolie, this epic World War II drama follows the incredible life of Olympian Louis Zamperini. Based on the 2010 non-fiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.

In this episode, we examine the might of the Japanese as they win victory after victory in the Pacific. In this phase of the conflict the Allies endured some of their most significant losses. Singapore fell to the Japanese in one of the greatest defeats the British Empire had ever known. The Americans were driven from the Philippines and in the seas off Malaya two British battleships were sunk by Japanese fighter pilots. In Russia the German forces were to endure the severest of winters but despite heavy losses were ready to go on the offensive again by spring. Renewed attacks began in the south as German forces turned their attention to the city of Stalingrad. But after a few months of triumph the tide began to turn against the Japanese. American bombers appeared in the skies over Tokyo and in two titanic battles the USA began to crush Japan's dreams of victory. The fighting in the Mediterranean and North Africa intensified as the siege of the island of Malta intensified and Rommel mounted ever more threatening operations in the desert.

A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realising that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.

Declassified Security Service files reveal the remarkable undercover life of a female spy who stole America and Britain's atomic secrets and gave them to the Soviets. Born Ursula Kuczynski in Berlin, 'Sonya' was one of the Red Army's most highly trained and sophisticated wireless operators with an illustrious career in espionage already behind her in China, Poland and Switzerland. She arrived in Britain in 1941 after marrying a British man and quickly took up contact with some of the country's most treacherous agents, including the shy genius and atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs and the later-named 'Granny Spy' Melita Norwood. As America and Britain raced to complete a new superweapon, Sonya passed atomic plans and blueprints to the Soviet Union. She led a frantic double life as a German Jewish refugee by day, sending Morse code throughout the night. Sonya died in 2000, and was honoured by Vladimir Putin as a hero of the USSR.

This is the extraordinary story of how Lenin, a stranger to Russia for almost two decades, took sole power of the world's largest country in just a few fateful months. He's the political has-been who came home and made history. On his return to Russian politics, Lenin made peace with his old enemy Trotsky and gained a new acolyte in Stalin. Between the three of them, these Russian revolutionaries became the architects of a new political regime that changed the world.

Following the Russian Revolution, Georgi Zhukov rose to become Stalin's deputy in the war against Hitler. Thorough and innovative, he was a single-minded soldier whose abilities helped turn the war around. The Battle of Berlin that finally destroyed the Nazi regime was Zhukov's ultimate triumph. There is no more difficult military objective than a major city. Zhukov's success in taking Berlin has led him to be called the greatest commander of the 20th century.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Ulysses S Grant worked in a store. Within four years he was commanding the Union armies and within eight, he was president of the US. The Battle of the Wilderness was an indecisive, bloody tangle in a dense forest. Though it ended in a tactical stalemate, it was a vital strategic victory - one which led to the defeat of the Confederacy.

From lowly Corsican army officer to first consul of France, this episode charts the rise of Napoleon to leader of the French nation in the late 1790s. It tells of Napoleon's military triumphs in Italy, Egypt and on the streets of Paris, his marriage to Josephine Beauharnais and leadership of the military coup that swept him into power. It shares in his ambition as an army officer, his highly progressive modernisation of the country during the early years of his dictatorship, but also his acute sensitivity, a personality trait that in later years would prove to be an Achilles heel to his power.

Horatio Nelson is Britain's greatest naval hero. Though at times insubordinate and reckless, Nelson's professional skills and personal inspiration brought him uncommon successes throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic as he fought against rival European fleets. At the remarkable Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson secured a mastery of the seals that brought the expansion of the British Empire.

Napoleon Bonaparte was a political and military genius who exploited the turmoil of revolution to become Emperor of France. He then used his command skills to conquer Europe. This program focuses on the Battle of Austerlitz, a spectacular victory against Austria and Russia, which fully justifies his reputation as the greatest modern commander.

For those lucky enough to survive WWII it still remains the most significant experience of their lives.

No single European country is a winner of the war in Europe and nobody wants to see Germany rise again.

This film is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss, who in Okinawa, during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic he single-handedly rescued the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was injured by a grenade and hit by snipers.

The world's first ever uranium bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. It's rationalised by the Allies that it would save millions of lives.

Ferocious fighting characterises the Allied offensive in the Pacific.

Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier. Japan entered the war confident that its superior spiritual strength and discipline would prevail, but this was not to be.

With the reality of defeat looming over Germany, Hitler retreats to an underground bunker.