Les Fusillés

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrophic error that unleashed an era of...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse...

This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with...

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the...

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the...

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

1917, The Train from Hell is an historical documentary about a train accident during WW1.