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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.

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 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 ...

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: 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: 01: The Approach of War | History File

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

The Peacemakers

Historian Margaret MacMillan revisits the scene of the Versailles Treaty and tries to establish whether it was a short-sighted settlement - as economist John...

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...

10: War Without End | The First World War

The final part explores the war's last few months, the armistice and the Treaty of Versailles.

04: Slaughter | 1914-1918

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele ...

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: To Arms | The First World War

The merciless pattern of the war was set early on, by Austro-Hungarian atrocities against Serbian civilians.

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...

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...

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.

06: Episode 6 | World War One: Beyond the Trenches

World War One was a truly global war. This series looks at events beyond Europe's Western Front, exploring some of the les...

02: The War Machine | Britain's Great War

With the country unprepared for war, the whole population is enlisted to turn Britain into a war machine.

07: Soldiers of Empire | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the overlooked stories of soldiers from across the British Empire who fo...