Flashback: The First World War

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Margaret MacMillan’s acclaimed work of...

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

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...

Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant.

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...

The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of battle forever. Using diaries, letters, photographs...

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.

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...

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...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake that initiated a city-wide fire. The...

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