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The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century(1996)

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Dame Judi Dench in the UK and Salome Jens in the United States. The series won two Primetime Emmy Awards: one for Jeremy Irons for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, the other for Outstanding Informational Series. In 1997, it was given a Peabody Award.

Blackadder(1983-1989)

FSK: 6+ years
| 32min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 209 votes)

Cunning plans and cutting comedy as the Blackadder dynasty plot their way through British history.

The Great War: The People's Story(2014)

1h per episode | Documentary, Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed by the Great War.

The ABC Murders(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 60 votes)

1933. Hercule Poirot, older and greyer, receives letters threatening murder. The sender signs themselves only as “A.B.C.” When he takes the letters to the police looking for help, Hercule finds all his old friends have moved on. But soon there is a murder and the once-great detective must take matters into his own hands.

Löwengrube(1989-1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime, War & Politics

"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.

Directed by Rainer Wolffhardt

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones(1999)

1h 30min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1996, George Lucas hired T.M. Christopher to aid in re-editing the complete series into twenty-two feature-length episodes. The series was also retitled The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. Each chapter contains two episodes, with all the chapters being in chronological order. As such, the scenes where an older Indiana Jones reminisces are never seen in these versions.

Wings(1977-1978)

3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

The trials and tribulations of a daring group of young pilots in the Royal Flying Corps as they prepare for battle in World War I. The lead character joins the RFC without being the right class for some of his fellow pilots.

Once an Eagle(1976-1977)

1h per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by E.W. Swackhamer - With Sam Elliott, Cliff Potts, Darleen Carr, Amy Irving, Glenn Ford, George Wyner, ...

Shackleton(2002)

1h 43min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

A Sinner's Lie(2014-)

1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Serious legal thriller starring Hideaki Ito which depicts the glory and the darkness of an infamous and highly paid lawyer.

The Passing Bells(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 30min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

At the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents to sign up. An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.

Orient Express(1979)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.

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The House in the Woods(1971)

53min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.

Testament of Youth(1979)

48min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth---a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI--- chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing 'hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood.' Her plan is to attend Oxford.

Doomsday: World War I(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 45min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War(1998)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.

Apocalypse: The Battle of Verdun(2016)

45min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 1916, the French and German armies relentlessly fought in the devastated camps around the village of Verdun.

Directed by Isabelle Clarke

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler(2011)

55min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of the Germans, who believed he was nothing more than an eccentric dreamer. But when the crisis of 1929 devastated the economy, the population, fearful of chaos and communism, voted for him. And no one defended democracy. As the dictatorship extended its relentless shadow, the leader claimed peace, but was preparing the Apocalypse.

Deadline Gallipoli(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.

Directed by Michael Rymer - With Sam Worthington

World War One(1964-1965)

30min per episode | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

This historical survey of the First World War was produced and aired by CBS to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of hostilities. The series used footage that was shot during the era of the war. Much of the footage had never been aired on television before.

Rebellion(2016)

FSK: 18+ years
| 52min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.

Apocalypse: World War I(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 52min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 129 votes)

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

Gallipoli(2015)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.

A Fortunate Life(1986)

1h 30min per episode | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.

The Monocled Mutineer(1986)

1h 10min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Monocled Mutineer TV series follows the rebellion that took place at the notorious Etaples Training Camp in northern France on the eve of "The Battle of Passchendaele" in 1917. After the mutiny, the dashing Percy Toplis takes flight, dressed as a British officer, soon to embark on a love affair with beautiful young widow, Dorothy. A solder in the First World War, the real Percy Toplis was a rake, rogue and master of disguise who became the most wanted man in Britain. This controversial, acclaimed 1986 four-part BBC dramatisation of high romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution was adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the book by William Allison and John Fairley.

Deli Saraylı(2010)

1h 30min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, War & Politics
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Ellis Island(1984)

2h 20min per episode | Drama
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

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Doomsday: World War I(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?

The World Wars(2014)

1h 30min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.

The First World War(2003)

3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

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