On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake that initiated a city-wide fire. The commanding officer of the U.S. Army base at the Presidio, Fred Funston, gathered citizens to fight the fire, patrol the streets, and rebuild the city – all without authorization.

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup,...

Kabul, August 15, 2021. US troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, while the Taliban are ...

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...
A family suffers greatly during the First World War.

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...

Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI...

A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.