Few events of the twentieth century have so dramatically engulfed such a large proportion of humanity as China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". Millions suffered and untold others died, yet the Cultural Revolution remains only barely understood. There is little agreement on when it began (1964 or mid-1966), how long it lasted (three years, 1966-69, or a decade, 1966-76), what it was about (culture, revolution, power struggles, or Mao Zedong's monomania), or what it achieved ; a true Marxist-Leninist revolution, the prelude to the reform era, or was it just a meaningless period of political zealotry and chaos?

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Few figures in U.S. military history are as divisive as General Robert E. Lee (1807-70). Adored by some for his heroic leadership of the Confederacy during the Civil War - to such a degree that countless statues still commemorate him in the American South - and resented or loathed by others for the southern cause that he promulgated, Lee continues to court endless fascination. This episode of PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary series explores Lee's life, accomplishments and reputation, with a particularly strong emphasis on his string of military victories and the idolization surrounding Lee in the 140 years that followed his death.

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Just a week after his 100th birthday celebrations, NHS fundraiser extraordinaire and national treasure Captain Tom Moore marks another upcoming milestone in this documentary - 75 years since VJ Day and the end of the Second World War later this summer. He looks back on his time in the brutal Burma campaign and honours the soldiers who fought in what has since become known - with so much focus on the European battlefront and on today's VE Day commemoration - as the 'forgotten war'.

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