Flashback: The First World War

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

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...

Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant.

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who...

When the United States entered World War I, its Army Air Service lacked a combat-ready aircraft – a liability that prompted a search to find an...

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

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrophic error that unleashed an era of...

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...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.