Sheltering in a sunken road near the French village of Beaumont Hamel on 1 July 1916, Captain Edmond McNaghten "Pongo" Dawson believed the first British thrust during the Battle of the Somme would be ...
Incredible footage has emerged of American troops taking part in sprint races and a boxing tournament near to one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. Historic black-and-white video ...
One of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme, was fought seventy-three years ago. To commemorate the half a million Irishmen who fought in the First World War, the ...
A documentary about the newsreel footage that cameraman Geoffrey Malins shot of the first few days' fighting of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, during the First World War. He was allowed ...
This is the shocking moment a smartly dressed man kicked wreaths commemorating The Battle of the Somme. CCTV footage released by Manchester City Council shows two men in suits walking towards the ...
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One hundred years after the battle of the Somme and the groundbreaking film that followed, Laura Clouting explores the challenges of dramatising the fear, courage and complicated reality of going into ...
During the Autumn of 1916, with World War One at its height, 20 million Britons, almost half the population, flocked to cinemas across the UK to watch the first moving images of the frontline. The ...