S1.E1 ∙ Vanished in a Vortex

Max Hastings, who himself worked on the landmark series The Great War (1964) 50 years before, argues the case that his and many other ancestors did not die in vain in The First World War.

Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for several months, and the city is buzzing with unrest. Citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. Armed with axes, hay thieves, knives and rifles, they storm the Bastille fortress. Join us for the crazy day in the streets of Paris, which has become a symbol of the French Republic.

The war never ended when they came home. It played in the back of their mind like an endless movie.

Life story of sexually harassed women by Japanese army, so called "comfort women" and the reflected story of Grandma, Ok-seon Lee in that period of time

How music was hi-jacked under the Third Reich and the recovery of the works it banned.

Shot in one harrowing take, Bubenec's tense handheld dispatch begins at a blown-up bridge in embattled Eastern Ukraine, before detouring into an interrogation at a makeshift base and dissipates into ornery chatter among bored and aggrieved soldiers. Her war-zone film gripped the small crowd with whom I watched it, dropping us in media res at the thoroughly dicey Russian-Ukraine conflict. The whole scenario-which could be plucked wholesale for a fictional thriller-neatly captures the frontier justice at work, but it's also an instant window into how the bloodshed of war pervades life and aggravates and enables male aggression.