Episode list

The First World War

To Arms

Fri, Sep 19, 2003
Exploring how the Great War started and Britain's reasons for joining, through rare archive film from around the world and accounts from survivors.
8.4 /10
Under the Eagle

Fri, Sep 26, 2003
This program details the transition from a war of movement to a static war. There is also a discussion of Germany's conduct of the war and the administration of the occupied territory in Belgium and France.
8.4 /10
Global War

Fri, Oct 03, 2003
As war in Europe threatened war across the globe, Germany suspected that Britain would risk everything to protect her empire, including victory on the Western Front.
8.2 /10
Jihad

Fri, Oct 10, 2003
The history of Turkey's involvement in World War I.
8.2 /10
Shackled to a Corpse
Re-examines the war on the Eastern Front down to the Alps, as both sides came close to victory, through rare archive film and accounts from survivors.
8.2 /10
Blockade

Fri, Oct 31, 2003
This history of the naval aspect of the war and how Germany's blockade strategy eventually led to the United States of America to entering it.
8.4 /10
Revolution

Fri, Nov 07, 2003
How governments, fearing unrest at home, set about the creation of revolution among the enemy, from the Arab revolt through Lawrence of Arabia to the German backed Easter Rising in Ireland.
8.2 /10
Germany's Last Gamble
With Russia out of the war, Germany's Triple Alliance attempts to capitalize on the strategic advantage to win the war before the American forces join the fight.
8.3 /10
War Without End
The final part explores the war's last months, including the armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, and the terrible message it left to the century it shaped.
8.5 /10
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