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 true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evi...

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

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

When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Josef Schwejk, a naive dog dealer in Prague, joins the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war ...
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the ...

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

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

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup,...

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

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

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

Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...