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.
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the ...

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

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

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now ...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh...

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...

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

In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientiou...

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between ...

At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, ho...

Jeanne, a young modern woman, mourns her brother who died in the front a few months earlier in WW I....

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fig...

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...