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.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

A young Austrian soldier in World War I fights his way through the Alps to rescue his Italian girlfr...

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

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

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

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

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.

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...

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

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

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mans...

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon ...