Documentary concerning the battle of Verdun which, with its weapons of mass destruction, marked the beginning of modern warfare in what is considered to be the most gruesome military confrontation of World War I. The programme conveys the horror of this military inferno, illustrating the similar experiences of the French and German soldiers and their struggle for survival. It also provides the unknown soldier with a face through various letters, diaries and private photographs.
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the ...
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...
Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...
In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines t...
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...
The story takes place at the end of World War I and in the period that followed. It focuses on an in...
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accom...
On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...
Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I...
Tommy's Christmas parcels are despatched to the Front in a fleet of trucks.
The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska an...
In a Belgian village during the start of World War I, the Lambert family finds themselves thrust int...
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...
A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now ...
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...