This documentary series charts the British Civil War which rocked the United Kingdom for forty years. We meet its most prominent persons such as King Charles I, John Pym and Oliver Cromwell.

It was a time of great bitterness and hatred in England - a war that set father against son and brother against brother. The breakdown in relations between Parliament and King. This series tells the story of the war that shaped the course of a nation's history and laid the foundations of Britain as it is today.