A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly annou...

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.

With Jean-Baptiste at the front, Louise takes care of Bébé with the help of Uncle Pierre. The lette...

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon ...

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mans...

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p...

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war ...

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story inv...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...

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

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accom...

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh...

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...