Industrial Revolution

WW1

The Treaty of Versailles

The Nazi Regime

WW2

Additional Reading

Films, series and documentaries

WW1 

All Quiet on the Western Front (a film from the German perspective)

Black Adder Goes Forth (a comedy series) 

Gallipoli (the attempt to attack Germany's allies in the East)

The Trench (trench life for the allies)

Laurence of Arabia (war in the desert)

Oh! What a Lovely War (the Western Front)

Das Boot (submarine warfare)

Passchendaele (a devastating battle)

WW2

Saving Private Ryan (D-Day and beyond)

The Machine Gunners (the home front for children)

Pearl Harbor (the Japanese attack on a US naval base)

Enemy at the Gates (the Siege of Stalingrad)

Stalingrad (the Siege of Stalingrad)

Empire of the Sun (the Japanese capture of Singapore and a boy's experience of a Japanese concentration camp)

The World At War (A superb documentary series covering all aspects of World War Two)

Bridge over the River Kwai (the Japanese camps)

Band of Brothers (D-Day and beyond)

From Nuremberg to Nuremberg (the rise of the Nazis and beyond)

Generation War (a German perspective on the war)

The Gathering Storm (Churchill)

Into the Storm (Churchill)

Defiance (resistance in Eastern Europe)

Conspiracy (the Holocaust)

Letters from Iwo Jima (the war in the Pacific)

Nazi Germany

Hitler: the Rise of Evil (Hitler's rise to power)

Downfall (the last days of the Third Reich) 

The Final Days (the White Rose student resistance to the Nazis)

Shining Through (a spy thriller)

The Nazis:  A Warning From History (a superb BBC documentary)

Amen (the position of the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany)

Valkyrie (an attempt to assassinate Hitler)

Conspiracy (the Final Solution)

The Holocaust

The Book Thief (a child's view of the persecution of the Jews)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (a child's view of the persecution of the Jews)

Schindler's List

The Pianist (a Jew's survival in Warsaw)

Conspiracy (about decisions regarding the Final Solution)

Escape from Sobibor (Jewish escape from a notorious camp)