April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

The first episode covers 1915 to 1929. Canada's heavy military role in World War I (60,000 dead in a population of 8 million) transforms its society, its politics and its place in the world. The horror, bravery and sacrifice of trench warfare is evoked in Canada's great battles: Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Courcelette and Passchendaele. The domestic consequences of Canada's war effort are also wrenching - the conscription crisis of 1917 makes a...

When an Allied pilot crashes on the secluded island of Themyscira and tells of war in the outside world, Amazon warrior princess Diana leaves her home to fight evil and becomes Wonder Woman in the process.

Investigates how the Germans used zeppelins as deadly weapons during World War I and experts reconstruct and detonate incendiary bombs and test fire antique flaming bullets to discover how British forces were able to successfully defeat these weapons.

Looks at the roles three monarchs and cousins, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and King George V of England, played in the events leading up to and the outcome of World War I.