The assassins | Days That Shook the World

S1E2: 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 ...

5: Shot at Dawn | Not Forgotten

In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...

1914 - The War Revolution | Timewatch

A look at the rapid changes in the nature of warfare during World War I which ended hopes of a swift conclusion and caused a long blood...

5: Making Peace | History File

The Treaty of Versailles has been widely criticised and many believe the Second World War was due to its failure. In this section we explore w...

Indian soldiers in Marseille | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga discusses the experiences of the Indian soldiers arriving in Marseille at the begi...

4: Living and Dying | History File

The Great War was the first 'world' war, there were soldiers from Africa, Australia and India as well as Europe. In this section we look a...

7: 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 fou...

2: 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.

4: 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 w...

Shot at Dawn | Frontline Scotland

Documentary about the campaign to pardon the names of First World War deserters.

Shot at Dawn | Week In Week Out

Phil Parry looks at the case of British soldiers executed for alleged cowardice in the First World War.

The Somme | War Walks

1 July 1916 was the blackest day in the British army's history. Richard Holmes walks the fields where 57,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in just a ...

The Wipers Times (2013)

World War I drama based on a true story. An army captain discovers a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium, in 1916, and decides to publish a...

War without End | The First World War

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

01: A House Divided | Royal Cousins at War

How the tangled relationships and emerging rivalries between Europe's royal houses at the outbreak of the First World War played a...

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,...

6: Making Germany Pay | History File

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

6: 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 object...