World War I is considered the most important event of the 20th century. Just about everything that occurred worldwide was a result of WWI: The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, World War II, the ...

Opera Orlando presents the Orlando premiere of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell's Pulitzer Prize winning Silent Night, a cinematic retelling of the 1914 Christmas Truce during World War I. Based on the ...

In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent. The Christmas truce ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

PLOEGSTEERT, Belgium -- With British and German forces separated only by a no man's land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air: ...

On Christmas Eve a century ago, an extraordinary event took place amid the mud-filled, rat-infested, barbed wire-entangled trenches that cut across Europe during World War I. As British and German ...

Christmas doesn’t stop a war, but it does put a bright circle around the date, making the distance from home and loved ones louder. That’s why the 1914 Christmas Truce keeps coming back on screen. For ...