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.

At the end of August 1914 Leuven became the victim of blind rage war. Virtually the entire city cent...

A chronology of the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers...

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of...

United by their renegade spirit and a determination to win against substantial odds, these riders ta...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his lon...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...
For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our pr...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...

The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...

A personal examination of the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the ...

On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...

A portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himsel...

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...

A sociological portrait of the United Kingdom after the historic Brexit vote of 2016. A funny, somet...