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.
Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme...
This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where...
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Sta...
When the United States entered World War I, its Army Air Service lacked a combat-ready aircraft – a ...
In East Los Angeles, three young misfit women find solace in an unapologetic, feminist bicycle crew....
Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving ...
This is a tale of epic adventure. A tale of seven brave riders who set out from the four corners of ...
Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the Hi...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The proje...
A documentary of early airplane pilot and WW1 fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, famously known as ...
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
Telling the stories of the last soldiers to die in the Great War.
Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen, and expert commentary from sc...
Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond, who is now the first and only American to win the Tou...
Docudrama examining the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey from the r...
In 1928 an under-resourced and untested team from New Zealand and Australia competed in what is cons...
On July 1st, 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment took part in a massive First World War offensive on the...
The final hours/days, events and people leading up to the end of WWI.
A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...