In a time filled with wars, environmental concerns and issues, there lives a gaggle of beautiful boys that are the personification of the world's countries. Japan, England, France, Finland, Germany and the rest of the boys attend the World Conference and tackle issues like global warming with a heavy dose of fun. Through multiple world wars the gang will traverse deserts, build mecha U-boats and solve the world's problems together!
Dick Dastardly and his snickering canine co-pilot Muttley plot to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon aboard their World War I flying machines.
Black Adder (Den sorte snog) er en engelsk komedieserie med Rowan Atkinson i hovedrollen. Serien strækker sig fra det 15. århundrede og op til Første Verdenskrig med nogle stop ind imellem og et stop i fremtiden. En af de mest bemærkelsesværdige ting i serien er Edmund Blackadders skarpe tunge og hans kvikke bemærkninger samt den uhyggelige måde, hvorpå han synes at have en hånd med i spillet ved vigtige situationer i Europas historie - og den smarte måde han får sig selv ind og ud af problemer. Han følges gennem serien af en trofast tjener, Baldrick, hvis intelligens bliver sammenlignet med kål. Deres familier er sammenbundet gennem et århundrede langt forhold som tjener og chef. Andre bekendte ansigter dukker flere gange op i løbet af århundrederne - blandt andet Lord Flasheart og Lord Percy Percy.
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.
Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S. Fischer and based on the 1968 Anton Myrer novel of the same name.
The first and last installments of the seven-part series were each two-hour broadcasts, while the interim episodes were 60 minutes.
The mini-series concerns the thirty year careers of two military men, from the outbreak of World War I to the aftermath of World War II.
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.
Oplev John Malkovich som Agatha Christies berømte detektiv Hercule Poirot. En dag modtager han et mystisk brev, som beskriver et fremtidigt mord. Brevskriveren, der kalder sig for ABC, bliver afskrevet som en dårlig spøg, men da et lig findes ved det i brevet beskrevne sted, kaster Poirot sig ud i sagen. Inden længe hober ligene sig op, men hvem er den mystiske brevskriver?
Hotel Adlon – en familiesaga er en miniserie i tre dele produceret til den tyske kanal ZDF. Mange af scenerne i serien bliver indspillet på Hotel Adlon, Berlin, hvor vi følger to fiktive familie fra 1907 til 1997.
"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.
Over 16 millioner blev dræbt og 20 millioner blev såret i den første store verdenskrig, der udspillede sig over 5 blodige år.
Denne fransk-producerede dokumentar miniserie er fuld af originale optagelser fra alle aspekter af konflikten - hverdagslivet, de store slag og de mindre kendte sammenstød.
Optagelserne er blevet omhyggeligt farvelagt og bliver akkompagnere af en flot designet lydside.
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.
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century. As a result of the conflict between the Entente and the bloc of the Central Powers led by Germany, which erupted in August 1914, Russia is drawn into the First World War. A wave of unrest is rolling through the country. Revolutionary moods are increasing every day. Counterintelligence is trying with all its might to suppress the activity of German spies active in the territory of the country ...
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 milestone 26-part history of the First World War, conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of its outbreak.
The World Wars tells 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.
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.
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.