Yearly pilgrimages to the war graves at the Yser

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in...

Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving story of five men, all members of a unique...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The...

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who...

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable...

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and...

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

Tommy's Christmas parcels are despatched to the Front in a fleet of trucks.

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer who laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

The Battle of the Falklands, between a Royal Navy task force and five German cruisers, was one of the most dramatic and bloodiest sea conflicts of...

On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to...