The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Dame Judi Dench in the UK and Salome Jens in the United States. The series won two Primetime Emmy Awards: one for Jeremy Irons for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, the other for Outstanding Informational Series. In 1997, it was given a Peabody Award.

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Written and presented by Martin Gilbert, Sir Winston Churchill's official biographer and the author ...

Sir Tony Robinson, the history presenter and former Black Adder star, tells the story of the Great W...

A life as dramatic as her work. Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magi...

A documentary series telling inspirational stories from the world of sport.

Michael Portillo examines the role of the railways in World War I and travels through Britain and Eu...

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of ...

Documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh consisting of colourised footage from World War I.

The story of the Irish politician Charles Haughey, told by his family as well as those who worked mo...

One month after the outbreak of World War I, Paris is bombarded by German airplanes. Parisians witne...

Napoleon's extraordinary rise from obscure military man to hero of the French people convinces him t...

The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did so...

A four-part documentary series about the Norwegian musical comedy trio Prima Vera. Featuring vintage...

Follows the life of Bill Walton, from his earliest days as a high school basketball phenom to some o...

Ayrton Senna tells his own story. The beginning of his career, the peak in F1, the rivalries, the Wo...

Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.