During World War I, a countess and her young son volunteer to don disguises and take an important secret message through enemy lines.The fluid editing and vastly more dramatic cinematography (especially the use of close shots for expressiveness and intimacy) are part of the extremely rapid advances in the artistry and technique of the film medium compared to just a year earlier.
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 young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI...

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns o...

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup,...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Josef Schwejk, a naive dog dealer in Prague, joins the ...

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budge...

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...
A family suffers greatly during the First World War.

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...