history
-
Every war film fan will recognise this man: Wolfgang Preiss. A sign of quality in so many great films from The Train and Von Ryan’s Express to The Boys from Brazil and A Bridge Too Far. But do you know about his start in cinema during WW2 – starring in propaganda films under Joseph Goebbels?
-
Honoured to share this film of 103-yr-old Marshall Badham, who must be the last survivor of the sinking of HMS Repulse in 1941.
-
Tribute to a survivor and a courageous chronicler of the disaster at Aberfan.
-
Margot. The other sister. She wrote a diary but, sadly, unlike Anne’s, it was never found. And so she became a supporting player in one of the most tragical stories of the Twentieth Century. Represented not in her own words, but in those of her younger sister.
-
My passion is for telling the story of ‘ordinary’ people doing extraordinary things. I hope that comes across in my interview with broadcaster Paul Ross.
-
At 8.30am on July 7, 1916, the 38th (Welsh) Division began its attack on Mametz Wood. The capture of the wood was key to a successful attack on the German second line in this area of the Somme battlefield. The first advance floundered in chaos 200-300 yards short of the wood, and a further attack…
