In the final hours of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and ‘the unsinkable ship’ slowly sank. It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th Century. Fifteen hundred seventeen men, women, and children lost their lives.

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.

Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.

The story of the struggle for the women's vote is much more than just the account of the exploits of Emmeline Pankhurst or the tragic fate of Emily Davidson. Lucy Worsley puts herself at the heart of the drama, alongside a group of astonishing young working class suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that British Edwardian society (1901-1910) had about them…

In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapped Mummies roam the grounds, killing people. Beneath a pyramid, the last of the Osirans — Sutekh the Destroyer — waits to be freed, to at long last bring his gift of death to all who live.

Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s.

Et misfoster af et musikalsk geni, skjult i Operahuset i Paris, terroriserer opera-selskabet til fordel for en ung protégée, som han træner og elsker. 25 års jubilæummet for musicalens første opførelse blev fejret med en stor forestilling i Royal Albert Hall i London.

I 1916 tvinges den franske oberst Dax til at sende sit regiment i kamp for at erobre det tysk besatte Ant Hill. Et angreb, der er umuligt og medfører store tab og afslører korruption og magtmisbrug hos de øverstbefalende.

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable toughness of life in trenches during the 4 year ordeal. How could they have accepted the idea of a sure death or injury while not being able to tell why they were fighting.

Da Første Verdenskrig er på sit højeste kastes de to unge britiske soldater, Scofield og Blake udi en tilsyneladende umulig mission. I et kapløb mod tiden må de krydse fjendtligt territorie for at levere en besked, der vil forhindre et altødelæggende angreb på hundredvis af britiske soldater – heriblandt Blakes egen bror.

I sit arbejde med at kortlægge den sibiriske ødemark møder kaptajn Arseniev Dersu Uzala. Den kinesiske jæger kan tyde alle naturens tegn og bliver kaptajnens vejviser. Frost, udmattelse og sult er hverdag for vejviseren, som flere gange redder kaptajnens liv. Sammen overlever de to mænd snestorme, vilde dyr og banditter, men én ting kan Dersu ikke overleve ... Det smukke naturdrama vandt Oscar som bedste udenlandske film.

I april 1912 stævner den enorme luksusliner Titanic ud på sin skæbnesvangre jomfrurejse. Ombord forelsker den 17-årige overklassepige Rose sig i den fattige, fandenivoldske Jack, der har vundet sin billet i et spil kort. Ingen af dem aner, at 'skibet der ikke kan synke' har kurs mod katastrofen. James Cameron's episke drama gjorde Leonardo DiCaprio og Kate Winslet til superstjerner og modtog hele 11 Oscars - deriblandt priserne for bedste film og instruktion.

I dokumentarfilmen They Shall Not Grow Old skildrer Peter Jackson (Ringenes Herre) de britiske soldaters oplevelser i 1. Verdenskrig på en helt utrolig måde, hvor over hundrede år gammelt arkivmateriale fra Imperial War Museum takket være den seneste teknologi, er blevet farvelagt og har fået en lydside krydret med interviews med soldater som deltog i krigen.

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Historien handler om Puyi, den sidste kejser af Kina. Man følger hans liv fra fødsel, da han bliver kejser som 3-årig og hersker over en halv milliard mennesker, da han bliver fængslet under den japanske invasion og til sidst i hans liv, hvor han blot er gartner.

Den indadvendte Jules og den erfarne Jim bliver bedste venner i mellemkrigstiden, hvor de begge forelsker sig i den overjordisk skønne Catherine. Jim lader galant Jules gifte sig med Catherine, men den lidenskabelige Catherine trives med usikkerheden og med flere tilbedere, så de tre indleder et trekantdrama, hvor generøsiteten bliver forudsætning for såvel venskab som kærlighed.