Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

War is a devastating force that has brought unimaginable horrors. When depicted through animated films, terrible stories from the battlefield take on a haunting power that differs from what live ...

A new programme of films at the Barbican in London aims to showcase how animation can be used to “circumvent our defences” in thinking about war In 1988, the Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli ...

Find out how Britain reacted to the news - was it with great anticipation or pure dread? The World War One movies contain photographs and written archive material reproduced by courtesy of the ...