Most Decorated: The Doughboys - The American teenagers who marched into Europe's Great War could not have anticipated the horrors of modern warfare: machine guns, mustard gas, and artillery shells. Gerald McRaney explains how outdated tactics would turn an infantry charge into an act of mass suicide.The Christmas Truce - During World War I, on and around Christmas Day 1914, the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front in favour of holiday celebrations in the trenches and gestures of goodwill between enemies. The soldiers on the Western Front did not expect to celebrate on the battlefield, but even a world war could not destroy the Christmas spirit.
Declassified: Secrets of WWI - This is the secret story of how The War To End All Wars was fought - and what happened when the first Weapons of Mass Destruction reached the battlefield. This is the forgotten story of the secret deals, government mistakes, and political intolerance of Americas role in World War I.
World War I: The Battle of Jutland - What really happened when catastrophe befell the mightiest fleet in the world? Featuring remarkable new analysis of the epic battle that sent Britains unconquerable super-dreadnoughts to the seafloor, this documentary settles longstanding controversies and definitively solves historical puzzles through the utilisation of cutting-edge technology from diverse fields of research to provide definitive analysis of the Battle of Jutland, May 1916.
World War I: The Somme - In just one day almost 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded. Why was this first day on the Somme such a disaster for the British? Filmed on the battlefield itself, in laboratories and on firing ranges - archaeologists, military historians, and other experts from disciplines as diverse as metallurgy and geology investigate the factors and conduct tests to replicate and understand the factors that turned one terrible day into the bloodiest in the history of the British Army.
Tunnel Raiders - During WWI, stalemate on the Western Front produced a new kind of warfare--a network of trenches dug on both sides of the line and a new breed of soldier fought deep underground using shovels, picks, and explosives. By 1917, the British were staring defeat in the face and focused on a ridge in the Ypres sector of Belgium to breach enemy lines. A network of 19 mines were laid under a ridge by tunnel units a total of almost one million pounds of explosives. The resulting blast was heard in London.
Dogfights: The First Dogfighters - World War I saw the birth of a new type of combat: the dogfight. Aces from almost every nation take canvas and wire bi-planes into battle and pioneer new tactics. German ace Ernst Udet goes 1 v. 1 with Georges Guynemer. Werner Voss takes on an entire squadron of British aces and American ace Arthur Raymond Brooks finds himself in the dogfight of his life. State-of-the-art computer graphics, first-hand accounts, rare archival footage and original shooting will help to make the viewer feel like they're in the battle, facing the enemy.
The Red Baron and the Wings of Death - April 1917 - the most feared pilot of World War I is at the controls of the best fighter plane of the day. A 24-year-old legend at the top of his game, Manfred von Richthofen is up against a new generation of enemy aircraft. It will demand all of the Red Baron's considerable skill just to survive.
Mystery U-Boat of WWI - Host John Chatterton travels to the English coast to dive on both wrecks in the dark and murky North Sea, and meet up with historians and divers who help him piece together clues left by two WWI ghosts.A veteran of the brutal naval battles of World War I, the German submarine UB-107 was discovered on the floor of the North Sea in 1985. An important find itself, it harboured a surprise that would force experts to re-examine the records of the epic conflict.
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