This ten-part docuseries tells the comprehensive story of the First World War, featuring excerpts written by Winston Churchill, Karen Blixen, Georges Clémenceau, David Lloyd George, Siegfried Sassoon and Rudolf Hess.
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Air Date: 2003-09-20
The First World War shaped the twentieth century. It sparked the Russian Revolution, and it launched America as a wor...
Air Date: 2003-09-27
The first months of the war on the Western Front were mobile, fast and dangerous; casualty rates were higher than wit...
Air Date: 2003-10-04
War for Europe meant war for the world. Germany gambled that Britain might risk everything to protect her Empire - ev...
Air Date: 2003-10-11
The Ottoman Empire, Germany's ally, summoned all Muslims to Jihad - holy war - to overthrow Allied power in the Middl...
Air Date: 2003-10-18
As the Germans and Austrians clashed with The Russians on the bitter Eastern Front, Italy became embroiled in a terri...
Air Date: 2003-10-25
Attrition, "lions led by donkeys", the slaughter only ceasing for a brief truce one Christmas - old, mistaken views o...
Air Date: 2003-11-01
The war at sea was every bit as bitter as the war on land. The battle at Jutland proved inconclusive but the U-Boat m...
Air Date: 2003-11-08
The effect of the Great War shattered nations, inspired mass mutinies by desperate troops, caused great upheaval on t...
Air Date: 2003-11-15
Over one million German troops were committed to Kaiserschlacht - the last great offensive of the war - while conflic...
Air Date: 2003-11-22
The dramatic Allied victory at Amiens led to victory in just 100 days - and the signing of a bitterly-resented peace,...