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.

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts ...

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI...

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambit...

A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the ...

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns o...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

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.

The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his elev...

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi...

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, en...

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star ...

After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer...

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

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