Documentary about the Battle of Jutland, a naval battle during World War I between the British and German fleets, which took place on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea, off the west coast of Denmark. It re-creates the events of the battle and examines why the number of British warships that sank was so much higher than the number of German ships that were lost. Shown to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the battle.

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano...

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

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblowe...

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battl...

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp...

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

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the pre...

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambit...

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

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

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

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.

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

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the At...

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi...

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, en...