WW1 - War on Two Wheels (2021)
• May 7th, 2021 • 0h 51min
Documentary
Overview
A fascinating insight into the role of the bicycle in the First World War - from reconnaissance to transporting ammunition, historian and cycling enthusiast Jeremy Banning explores stories from the battlefield. Ollie Bridgewood discovers the role cycle scouts played in the Army Cycling Corp and rides the original bikes used in the conflict. Mark Beaumont meets the grandson of a WW1 soldier who rode for the Highland Cyclist Battalion and survived brutal combat on the front line.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Paris-Brest-Paris
Released on: 2023-11-28
Adventure, Documentary
Paris-Brest-Paris is a cycling spectacle like no other. Once every 4 years, over 7,000 cyclists from...
Trial by Giro
Released on: 2023-11-21
Documentary
Canyon//SRAM racing takes on one of the biggest races on the women’s calendar: the Giro Donne. The G...
Unbound
Released on: 2023-10-03
Documentary
GCN presenter and ex-professional cyclist Conor Dunne heads to Midwest America to take on the infamo...
Rivals: Contador vs Schleck
Released on: 2023-06-20
Documentary
Andy Schleck & Alberto Contador. A pro cycling rivalry that ignited the Tour de France in 2009 and 2...
Ladder Bridges
Released on: 2006-03-03
Documentary
The North Shore mountain biking movement began early 1980 in Vancouver BC. Since then it's essential...
Alpe d’Huez
Released on: 2023-12-05
Documentary
A mountain so legendary it’s known simply as “The Alpe”, with its unmistakable 21 hairpins it’s cycl...
The First World War
Released on: 1934-11-08
Documentary, War
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Sta...
Two Types: The Faces of Britain
Released on: 2017-07-31
Documentary
We are surrounded by types, the words on signs, buses, shops and documents which guide us through ou...
Pozieres
Released on: 2000-12-31
Documentary, War, TV Movie
A captivating step back in time, Pozieres explores the small village in Northern France which, durin...
Kommando Selbstzerstörung - Der Untergang der Kaiserlichen Flotte
Released on: 2020-09-24
Documentary, History, War
SHIRES - A BRITISH BICYCLE FILM
Released on: 2024-03-14
Documentary
Shot around the UK over 2 years and narrated by 'The Voice of Mountain Biking', Rob Warner, Shires e...
Spokespeople
Released on: 2020-10-08
Documentary
For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our pr...
Landung auf Ösel 1917
Released on: 1939-01-01
Documentary, War
This educational film was compiled from original footage from 1917. It shows, among other things, gu...
Where the Trail Ends
Released on: 2012-09-19
Documentary, Adventure, Drama
"Where the Trail Ends..." is a film following the worlds' top freeride mountain bikers as they searc...
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Released on: 2017-09-20
Documentary, History, War, TV Movie
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the mo...
Mata Hari: The Naked Spy
Released on: 2017-10-15
Documentary
100 years ago Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted Dutch spy. It was at this moment that ...
Carnikavas kalnu karalis
Released on: 2021-07-26
Documentary
A documentary about Latvian professional road racing cyclist Toms Skujiņš.
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Released on: 2020-12-12
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The Trip
Released on: 2021-07-30
Documentary
In this honest and deeply personal account of living with addiction, a young man talks about the rea...