Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in the fields to those who stayed behind to work in the region’s shipyards and munitions factories.
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving ...
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...
Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, histori...
Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...
Tommy's Christmas parcels are despatched to the Front in a fleet of trucks.
A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...
The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...
The Battle of the Falklands, between a Royal Navy task force and five German cruisers, was one of th...
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport wit...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the ...
A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 191...
The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audie...
A documentary about the First Yale Unit, a group of Yale students who trained for World War I.