Flashback: The First World War

At the end of August 1914 Leuven became the victim of blind rage war. Virtually the entire city center was systematically destroyed by the Germans....

The small Belgian army held up the German advance, the British Expeditionary Force fought its first battle and the invincible German army was brought...

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...

Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, who may well have been clinically insane, but the importance of...

A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian military history. The film was made to show that...

Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was destroyed, surpassed those of any other army. The...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.

A documentary about the First Yale Unit, a group of Yale students who trained for World War I.

Sarajevo, late June 1914: A Serbian nationalist shoots the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne and his wife. A few weeks later, war raged in Europe...

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Margaret MacMillan’s acclaimed work of...

A response in music and film to the conflict that launched a century of war, and a celebration of the power of art to keep us sane and offer us...