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.

Corporal Muhsin is a sharp shooter who previously fought in the Balkan War. When mobilization is dec...

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer a...

The untold true story: The rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever, Parliament Funkadelic.

Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released fro...

During World War I, westerner Cheyenne Harry is a horse seller, but he refuses to part with his favo...

The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.

After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to '...

Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of...

A young man finds in an old abandoned farmhouse in Vans in Ardèche some fifty letters and a notebook...

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is ...

A comedy based on the novel of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk happens during the World War ...

Ukraine, 1919. The friendship of two boys, Anton and Jacob, one Christian, the other Jewish, manages...

Jozo and Mujo are mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Reluctantly drawn into the war they make a...

When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinit...

Theodore Roosevelt was America's 26th president and a larger-than-life legend whose incredible story...

Early twentieth century. The future poet, the nurturer of lyrics of love, Julius Janonis, is maturin...

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...

Powell. McChrystal. McCaffrey. Petraeus. Clark. For the first time, National Geographic Channel gath...

Young Terwilliger, an orphan boy in New York City, "adopts" Old Archer, the caretaker of Gramercy Pa...