Following the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau the already near exhausted British Expeditionary Force, who had been marching and fighting for six days without a break , embarked on a nine day epic march across France. They headed back to the safety of the far side River Marne south of Paris rather than to the traditional haven of British Armies – the Channel Ports.The BHTV team of historians and battlefield guides take us to the scene of some sharp rear guard actions fought during the Retreat from Mons including the great cavalry actions at Cerizy and Nery, where the mounted British soldier established domination of his German counterpart. As they travel the highways and byways of France they analyze the decisions made by the commanders in that fog of war that together spelt the end of the Schlieffen Plan and set conditions for the 'miracle of the Marne'.

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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