DescriptionAs he watched the second of his battle cruisers explode during World War I's greatest naval battle, Admiral Betty remarked: "There seems to be something wrong with my ships today." What was wrong included inherent design flaws that rendered the cruisers totally vulnerable to enemy fire.
DescriptionHere is an investigation into the true story behind the military disaster immortalized in the film Gallipoli . First Sea Lord Winston Churchill thought that the deadlock on the Western Front in World War I could be broken by an attack on Turkey. What followed was the worst planned operation of the war.
DescriptionIn 1917, Russia experienced the bloodiest civil war ever, in which 10 million were killed. This set into motion a chain of events that grew increasingly complex. The dark cloud of World War I that soon formed only exacerbated the chaos.
DescriptionIn World War I, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets put down their thoughts in poetry telling us much about wars and the people who fight them. This is a wonderful production with a very timely subject.
DescriptionA runaway best seller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallie, Sebastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as "a latter-day War and Peace " by The New York Times . Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiance who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty". Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.
