On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.

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

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines t...

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-kno...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...
A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the ...

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

1917, The Train from Hell is an historical documentary about a train accident during WW1.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the S...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Congress of the "Living Church" / Opening of the hor...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: International Youth Day and demonstrations / All-Rus...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions / Delegations a...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Prof...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Arts and crafts exhibition / Actions against hunger ...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

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