World War One

BBC

The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

  • 50 minutes 1 second
    USA: Isolationism

    How did WW1 change America's place in the world? Jonathan Dimbleby presents a public debate from the US Library of Congress in Washington

    27 June 2015, 5:30 pm
  • 50 minutes 4 seconds
    Germany: The Waging of War

    How did technological and industrial development revolutionise World War One? The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins were like nothing that had been experienced before.

    26 June 2015, 7:45 pm
  • 50 minutes 5 seconds
    Sarajevo: Nationalism

    A century ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war. How did the peace made after WW1 influence the ethnic conflicts in the region during the 1990s?

    26 June 2015, 1:14 pm
  • 49 minutes 53 seconds
    Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East

    How did World War One change the face of the Middle East? And, how did this seismic and controversial period shape the century to follow?

    22 June 2015, 2:49 pm
  • 50 minutes 5 seconds
    Britain: The Psychology of War

    What drove men to volunteer to fight during World War One? What drove them to the edge of sanity when they got there?

    30 April 2015, 5:34 pm
  • 50 minutes 1 second
    Australia: The Legend of Anzac

    Australia's experience of WW1 is like no other country's. What role has the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred-year history of Australia?

    18 April 2015, 6:30 pm
  • 50 minutes 3 seconds
    Tanzania: Race and Colonial War

    Audrey Brown chairs a discussion on the effects of World War One in Africa. She hears the stories from African fighters, on both the German and British sides. And she speaks to Tanzanians who tell their family memories, like Oswald Masebo from Dar es Salaam University.

    11 April 2015, 5:30 pm
  • 49 minutes 59 seconds
    France: Heroism

    Life in the trenches during World War One, amongst rats, mud, shelling, barbed wire and unprecedented numbers of dead, called upon new reserves of both endurance and courage. But what did the war do to the ancient idea of heroism?

    6 December 2014, 7:05 pm
  • 14 minutes 24 seconds
    WW1 At Home 20 - The Baghdadi Jews & a Terrier on Zeppelin watch

    How Manchester’s Baghdadi Jews fought to be recognised as friends of Britain and Jim the dog who helped keep the Kent coast safe.

    13 November 2014, 5:53 pm
  • 50 minutes 3 seconds
    India: Imperialism

    Hugely influential in the outcome of the war, its aftermath had a huge effect on India and its role in the British Empire.

    8 November 2014, 7:05 pm
  • 15 minutes 24 seconds
    WW1 At Home 19 - Tank Trials & Making Jam for the Frontline

    The technical innovation that led to the birth of the tank, tales from the grandsons of the Guernsey soldier who travelled all over the world and the factory in Grimsby that supplied the frontline in jam.

    23 October 2014, 1:20 pm
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