The Shortest Day

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley....

The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in...

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

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...

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

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

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