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- DirectorRobert A. DuncanStarsJay BrazeauPaul NashRae HullThe life and career of John McCrae, a World War I army doctor who wrote the 20th century's greatest war memorial poem.I
- DirectorTolga ÖrnekStarsZafer ErginDemetri GoritsasJeremy IronsThe Allied invasion of and campaign in Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War 1.I
- StarsIan HislopNick BarrattJohn OxfordAn exploration of how World War One changed British society. The stories behind some of the names listed on war memorials are investigated by tracking down the descendants of the soldiers.I
- DirectorAndrew GoldbergStarsJulianna MarguliesRon SunyPeter BalakianThe first Genocide of the 20th century when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I, between 1915 and 1918.I
- DirectorGeoff BurtonStuart ScowcroftStarsMichael MolkentinMat McLachlanNinety years after the last shots were fired, two young Australian historians embark on an emotional journey to the First World War battlefields on the infamous Western Front and find five bodies of Australian troops buried under a road in Flanders. With the aid of DNA and historical research they embark on a quest to give names to the anonymous dead.I
- DirectorHoward GuardStarsImogen SlaughterHertfordshire became one of the great staging areas for troops going to France in WW1. Made from photographs supplied by local museums and the public, the camera looks deeply into the unsung heroes of the Home Front, at home and at work. It offers a fresh and surprisingly local view of a story that is now retold on television on a wider canvass. Interlaced with original recordings and songs of the period, the film makes compulsive viewing, often haunting, ultimately uplifting and forever Hertfordshire.I
- StarsEdmund AllenbyD.W. GriffithMichael HeavisideA collection of 2 minute documentaries that tell not only the historical facts of WW1, but also the stories of those most involved and others greatly affected by the day to day events. The deadly serious to more light-hearted, this has it all compiled from the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum.I
- DirectorJoseph MurphyRebecca ThompsonStarsPaul von HindenburgFrom the beginning to the end, this is what happened during WW1. Told by genuine oral testimony recorded and saved by the Imperial War Museum. Presented as a complete history of the large and small components of what made that terrible time in our 20th century.I
- DirectorAlicia ArceStarsDan SnowNick HewittShini SomaraDocumentary about the Battle of Jutland, a naval battle during World War I between the British and German fleets, which took place on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea, off the west coast of Denmark. It re-creates the events of the battle and examines why the number of British warships that sank was so much higher than the number of German ships that were lost. Shown to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the battle.I
- DirectorJoe BerlingerStarsShohreh AghdashlooTaner AkçamHagop AsadourianFilmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.I
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsThomas AdlamWilliam ArgentJohn AshbyA documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.I
- DirectorAnnabel VerbekeEver since 1919, the daily life in Ypres, in Flanders Fields, has been dedicated to commemorating the First World War. The films makes a journey through this landscape of remembrance and encounters the most diverse and contradictory ways of commemorating.I