The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.

In a Belgian village during the start of World War I, the Lambert family finds themselves thrust int...

Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving ...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to st...

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

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen g...
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer,...

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

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...

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

This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak ...

On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...

A black comedy about a man impersonating a spy in the midst of World War I.

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...