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...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon t...

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

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

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

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

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.

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

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

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

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...

The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...

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

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...