Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment became the most highly decorated unit of the First World War.

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

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

Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...

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

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone – the groundbreaking band led by the...

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...

Joint montage of the first three silent films about Švejk: Good Soldier Švejk (1926, director: Karel...

A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Nar...

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

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.

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

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

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

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

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...