Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing al...

How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just o...

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heav...

As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Ar...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispu...

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security....

On July 1st, 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment took part in a massive First World War offensive on the Somme, led by the British. At Beaumont Hamel the...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...

Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983.

From an archived interview originally recorded in 1982, this 1990 production reveals the findings of chief congressional investigator, Director of Res...

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads

This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with m...