Wars and Peace

20th-century conflict sparks a creative rebellion in "Wars and Peace" as artists grapple with the devastation in Europe and the cultural transformation sweeping across the British Isles.

In her performance of the poem "Easter 1916" by W.B. Yeats, actress Michelle Fairley delivers the poignant line, ''a terrible beauty is born,'' signaling a shift in public opinion away from the British Empire. Photographer Hannah Starkey considers the outsider's perspective Bill Brandt brought to his images of 1930s poverty, including the groundbreaking "Coal-Searcher Going Home to Jarrow." While comedian Eddie Izzard admires the radical modernist vision of the German and Russian Jewish émigrés who designed the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.

Film director Andrew MacDonald explores the controversy surrounding his grandfather Emeric Pressburger's movie "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," which satirized the British war effort.