Our World War

In August 1914, two weeks after the First World War was declared, 80,000 British troops have arrived in southern Belgium, but they have yet to engage the enemy. What happens next tests the soldiers' skill, courage and ingenuity to the absolute limit. Not everyone will make it through the First Day.

Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins a Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. How do they get through the reality of war?

At the Battle of Amiens, a tank commander and his crew must storm through enemy lines and fight against the odds to bring the war to an end.