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Series 1

Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts

Francine Stock on popular culture in Britain, France, Germany and Russia as war begins.

• 28 mins

Series 1

Kandinsky, Khaki and Kisses

Francine Stock explores how artists and the publishing world responded to the war.

• 28 mins

Series 2

Glimpses of a Modern World

Francine Stock continues her exploration of the culture of World War I in 1915.

• 28 mins

Series 2

A Cubist War

Francine Stock explores a fragmented world through the prism of the art it created.

• 28 mins

Series 2

War on the Mind

How the harrowing effects of WWI became apparent in art, music and poetry.

• 28 mins

Series 3

Bleeding France

1916. The year of Verdun and the Somme. Could artists and writers convey this new hell?

• 28 mins

Series 3

The Tank and the Home Fires

1916: Tanks capture the public imagination, but the comforts of home are shattered by war.

• 28 mins

Series 3

Dada and Defiance

1916. Dada is born and Jerusalem is sung. Gorky defends Jewish life in print.

• 28 mins

Series 4

The Jazz Kings Go to War

The story of the Harlem Hellfighters and how jazz conquered France.

• 28 mins

Series 4

Reality and Reconstruction

Francine Stock explores how the First World War transformed the arts across Europe.

• 28 mins

Series 4

An Intimate War

Francine Stock considers the intimate impact of war on society and culture.

• 28 mins

Series 5

1918: Chaplin Goes to War

The propaganda and protest art that comes from America at war

• 28 mins

Series 5

1918: Vienna and the Fall of an Empire

Francine Stock examines the cultural life of Vienna in 1918.

• 28 mins

Series 5

The Return of the Soldier

Francine Stock concludes her four-year exploration of how artists responded to WWI.

• 28 mins