1917, The Train from Hell

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became...

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...

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea...

Wounded and left for dead, a British soldier in the midst of the First World War embarks on a daring escape from a booby-trapped German dugout.

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...

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

This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history. In its heyday, the big smoke-belching...

At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable...