A comprehensive survey of the history of World War I.
In 1914, decades of building European resentments and rivalries finally exploded into a massive total war that became much larger and bloodier for far longer than anyone could have imagined. This series endeavors to tell the full story of World War I, which was far more than just the trenches and includes war on the high seas and furthest flung regions of the world.
Aired: Sep 20, 2003 The First World War shaped the twentieth century. It sparked the Russian Revo...
Aired: Sep 27, 2003 The first months of the war on the Western Front were mobile, fast and danger...
Aired: Oct 4, 2003 War for Europe meant war for the world. Germany gambled that Britain might ri...
Aired: Oct 11, 2003 The history of Turkey's involvement in World War I.
Aired: Oct 18, 2003 The war on the Eastern Front was racial; Slav verses Teuton. It was highly mo...
Aired: Oct 25, 2003 Attrition; "lions led by donkeys", the slaughter only ceasing for a brief tru...
Aired: Nov 1, 2003 This history of the naval aspect of the war and how Germany's blockade strate...
Aired: Nov 8, 2003 Increasingly governments faced the risk of their men mutinying, morale cracki...
Aired: Nov 15, 2003 With Russia out of the war, Germany's Triple Alliance attempts to capitalize ...
Aired: Nov 22, 2003 The war's last months were more destructive than trench warfare had been. Ger...
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Current Status: Ended
Network: Channel 4
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres: War, Documentary, History
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