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 who...
How the tangled relationships and emerging rivalries between Europe's royal houses at the outbreak of the First World War played a...
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 Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.
Commemoration, examining the movement for war memorials following the First World War, and the continuation of this tradition for subsequent...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.
David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of In...
The first section asks who was to blame for the war.
First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of ...
Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode...
The war continues throughout 1915. Towering over all else was the mighty German offensive of Gorlice-Tarnow, where the Russian...
This episode looks at the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest clashes in history, which lasted for ten months during 1916.
Over two million volunteers respond to Kitchener's appeal of 1916, and many are sent to the killing grounds of ...
The Battle of the Somme began in July 1916. By February 1917, an irreparable blow had been struck at the German Army, but at the cost...
By the end of 1916 a compromise peace is considered, but the new leaders are committed to seeking total victory - at any ...
This episode explores the attempts to rally the French Army for a spring offensive, but they began to openly mutiny.
In 1917, the October revolution brought the Communists to power in Russia, while America entered into the war on 6th Ap...
Morale becomes impossible to sustain as the battle of Passchendaele lasts through the summer of 1917.
Following the October Revolution, Russian enthusiasm for the war heartens the Allies and alarms the Germans.
A look at the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front and the effect this had upon the human spirit.
The Great War is fought with larger armies and deadlier weapons than ever before, bringing death and carnage on an unprecede...
Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, international diplomacy breaks down completely.
In part two, historian David Olusoga explains how the First World War spread far beyond the mud and ...
Series telling the history of the Great War. Experts thought technical advances in weaponry would bring about a quick victory, but armies soon resor...
The second section explores why the war wasn't over by Christmas 1914 and what life was like in the trenches.
David Hayman explores Germany's World War One U-boat threat and the fascinating and dastardly ploys Britain...
With the country unprepared for war, the whole population is enlisted to turn Britain into a war machine.
The war has evolved from an old-fashioned localised conflict to an all-engulfing 'total' war involving entire nations.
Germany takes a huge risk, launching a massive offensive in early 1918, aiming to achieve victory before the Americans a...
The German army launched a successful counter-attack in May 1918, but it was is too late - the Americans had arrived.
By 5 August, the Germans had once again been driven back to the River Aisne. This was the turning point of the war. Six days later,...
With the Western Front dominating the minds of generals and statesmen, they sought a back door to victory - the Mi...
The penultimate episode recounts the collapse of Germany's Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian allies.
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1918, the Armistice came into effect.
How Germany's attempts to starve Britain into submission edged the nation closer to defeat than ever.
Britain gets its first taste of total war, which transformed the lives of people on the frontline and at ...
The First World War was a total war. Nobody escaped, even the women and children at home. In this third section we look at how the lives of ...
Following the declaration of war, the German army began to carry out the Schlieffen Plan, perhaps the most famous military pl...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War. With deadlock in the trenches, the great powers searched for other ways to br...
The trauma of the First World War gives Europe no appetite for any further conflicts, but within subsequent two decades the worl...
Jeremy Paxman describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat in the last year of the war.
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...
As the German forces advance on Paris, the French commander-in-chief General Joffre builds up a surer resistance.
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele w...
Ben Robinson flies over the Thames to reveal discoveries about WWI, including a network of trenches on the Hoo peninsula...
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...
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War through the words of those who lived through the conflict. By the start of 1917, the strain of ...
In this special edition of Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop uncovers the powerful stories of First World War soldiers from across the British Empire...
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