The Shortest Day

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at...

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...

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

Part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume examines the events of 1917, when the Allies launched...

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

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

During WWI, the Germans try to encourages and hires a band of certain Mexican guerrillas and bandits to make trouble on the Texas border and attack...

Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the war as illustrated by an assemblage of...

The iconic Belgian duo back on stage for various sketches!

Military doctor Katz loses to his servant Josef Švejk at cards. Švejk steals a dog for his new superior, Lieutenant...

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