A young filmmaker is commissioned to write a documentary about the First World War. He tries to find a way to tell the story of the war. What is to be done with all these films waiting in the archives to be shown again? He tries his hand at different styles of writing and editing, keeping in mind the question: can you make a montage film without transforming the images?

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

Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework o...

Immigrant workers build a shopping mall for the upcoming 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2016, nine...

Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant.

The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...

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

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

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

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...

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

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

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...

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

Habito tells the story of a poor, fat black man in pursuit of his dream of being a filmmaker, facing...

Gathering for a Christmas lunch, the film critics and writers of Discovering Film discuss the merits...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...