WW1
Ask Alice
From the windswept prairies of Kansas to downtown Chicago, and from rural Norfolk to the rarefied atmosphere of Chelsea and…
The Turtle Catcher
It opens with a shocking scene in 1920s Minnesota, in which the title character, Lester Sutter, a mentally handicapped…
Jack London in Paradise
A reimagining of the last year of Jack London’s life (1915-16), follows filmmaker and aging matinee idol Hobart Bosworth as…
The Last Days of the Romanovs
On 17 July 1918, in Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children: Olga, Tatiana,…
The Soldier’s Woman
Orphaned at a young age, Faith and James are raised by their aunt and grandparents, living on the profits of…
Shannon
Father Robert Shannon of Boston is a young priest suffering from severe periodic mental instability caused by memories of his…
Assegai
Popular adventure novelist Smith sets his latest tale of the sprawling, ambitious Courtney family in British East Africa as the…
Land of Marvels
Somerville, a British archaeologist, is spending his third season working on Tell Erdek in Mesopotamia just months before the start…
The Given Day
Set against the waning years of World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the increasingly turbulent social changes…
1918: A Very British Victory
1918 is an account of the last year of the Great War on the Western Front, leading to the collapse…
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