01: Race to Kamina | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

S01E02: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

How the duke's death led to the start of the First World War.

The Somme: From Defeat to Victory

Drama-documentary which offers a new perspective on the most infamous battle of World War I, revealing how it was on the Somme that the Bri...

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the ...

1917 (2019)

During the First World War, two soldiers are ordered across no-man's-land and deep into enemy territory to deliver a message. If they fail, an entire battalion, ...

The First World War: 01: The Approach of War | History File

The first section asks who was to blame for the war.

06: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop explores the powerful and often overlooked stories of conscientious objec...

00: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner wh...

01: The First Day | Our World War

Drama revealing real experiences of British soldiers in the First World War. In August 1914, the Royal Fusiliers reach the town of Mons in ...

The First World War: 06: Making Germany Pay | History File

In this section we look at the traumatic years of the Weimar Republic and the years 1918 to 1929.

01: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian,...

01: War Comes to Britain | Britain's Great War

Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode focu...

Episode 1 | The Passing Bells

At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents to sign up. But their enthusiasm is tested when they...

A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WWI

Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Arthur Roberts - one of thousands of black soldiers who fought in WWI. His diary provides a unique...

02: Into the Abyss | Royal Cousins at War

The roles played by cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England in the desperate,...

The First World War: 02: Stalemate | History File

The second section explores why the war wasn't over by Christmas 1914 and what life was like in the trenches.

The First World War: 03: The Home Front | History File

The First World War was a total war. Nobody escaped, even the women and children at home. In this third section we loo...

What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?

Documentary telling the story of how half a million children lost their fathers in WW1. Some of the sons and daughters tell of the d...

01: 1918 Western Front | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

The Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.

02: Pals | Our World War

A soldier in the Manchester Pals regiment finds himself fighting both the Germans and a system that requires him to execute one of his pals.

Episode 1 | The Trench (2002)

Fear, fatigue and cold daily life in a First World War trench is relived in this three-part series. Based on diaries kept by the 10th Battalion...