11 November 1918, a few minutes preceding the suspension of fighting, you embody a corporal who has to face a series of decisions.

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left wit...

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

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

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presi...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last pla...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capt...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. G...