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.

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

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...

A look into the 19th century American-Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, and the conflicts between Apach...

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

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

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...

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

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

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

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.

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

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

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

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

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

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...

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

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...