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The Great War
Trailer: The Great War
Runtime: 26:14 minutes
Quality: HD
First Air Date: Jul 28, 2014
Last Air date: Sep 13, 2025
Episode: 339 Episode
Season: 12 Season

The Great War Season 0
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The Great War Season 1
After the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the following events today known as the July Crisis, the European powers go...

The Great War Season 2
The war was supposed to be over by Christmas 1915 but instead of peace, 1915 brings ever more escalation. The Ottoman Empire and Italy join the war,...

The Great War Season 3
2 years after the start of the war, three of the biggest battles of human history are fought simultaneously: The Russian Brusilov Offensive, the...

The Great War Season 4
The war gets bigger and bigger as the USA and several other countries join the war. At the same time Russia is drowning in revolutions and pulling...

The Great War Season 5
Even after 3 1/2 years of war, the waring nations still gear for bigger and bigger offensives that will finally bring and end to "the war to end all...

The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 1
After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary is determined to put a lid on Serbia once and for all. Germany wanted to go to war with...

Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan - Week 2
Austria-Hungary starts the bombardment of Belgrade. What follows is a deployment race of armies between all major powers in Europe. Nobody wants to...

To Arms! The Deployment of Troops - Week 3
The first few days of war were a combination of failed organisation and chaos. The Austro-Hungarian supreme command lacks combat experience, and...

A New War with Old Generals – Carnage on the Western Front - Week 4
In the early days of World War 1, warfare is still based on ideas and ideals of 19th century generals. The technological progress during...

The Rape of Belgium and the Battle of Tannenberg - Week 5
During their advance through Belgium, the German Army is committing atrocities against Belgian civilians - justified as response to resistance and...

Plans Are Doomed to Fail - The Battle of Galicia - Week 6
While the Germans on the Western Front are very close to reaching Paris, the Eastern Front proves to become a disastrous failure for the...

Taxi to the Front – The First Battle of the Marne - Week 7
The German Army is so close to Paris that French soldiers are brought to the front by taxis. Together with the British Expeditionary Forces, the...

Welcome to the Dirt – The Beginning of Trench Warfare - Week 8
After the advances and retreats during the early weeks of war, the front is coming to a grinding hold after the Battle of the Aisne. The German Army...

The Russian War Machine and the Race to the Sea - Week 9
parked by the desperate state of the Austrians, the Russian army goes on the offensive. General Ivanov even tries to use his numerical superiority to...

Dying in the Mud - Autumn Is Taking Its Toll - Week 10
he autumn rain turns the battlefields into muddy landscapes. Mud in which the soldiers are hardly able to dig trenches and in which no artillery gun...

Back for Christmas? - The Illusion of a Short War - Week 11
In the trenches on the Western Front and in the mud on the Eastern Front, hundreds of thousands of soldiers die and with them dies the illusion of a...

Learning From Napoleon – Russia, The Underestimated Enemy - Week 12
After defeating the Russian Army in the early weeks of the war, the German and Austrian generals hope to push the Russians back with combined forces....

A War to End All Wars - Home Front Propaganda - Week 13
The first weeks of war already took hundreds of thousands of lives and the daily struggle to survive in the trenches on the Western Front has nothing...

Fresh Meat - The Search For New Recruits - Week 14
After some heavy casualties during the first months of war, the armies had to look for new recruits. While Great Britain undertook soldiers in...

The World at War - The Ottoman Empire Enters the Stage - Week 15
Three months after the outbreak of the war, another world power enters the conflict: The Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman war minister Enver Pascha, a...

The Defensive War on the Western Front - Week 16
The German army dug in at the Western Front and waited for the next Russian attack at the Eastern Front. Even though the Germans outnumbered their...

The Enemy Within - The German Army's Power Play - Week 17
The commanders of the German army blame each other for the missing victories. Erich von Falkenhayn and Paul von Hindenburg both believe that they...

Iron, Steel and Oil - The Fight for Resources - Week 18
Four months after the outbreak of the war, a new objective develops: the fight for the most valuable resources. The modern warfare and its war...

Mission Accomplished? - The Austro-Hungarian Empire Conquers Belgrade - Week 19
During the first week of December, Austria manages to capture Belgrade. Thereby Austria is the first nation to achieve one of its war aims. The...

The Battle at the Falkland Islands - The Death of Maximilian von Spee - Week 20
Near the far away Falkland Islands the story of the German East Asia Squadron is coming to an end: in a naval battle nearly the entire squadron is...

The Raid On Scarborough - A Failed Attempt at Intimidation - Week 21
German admiral Franz von Hipper reluctantly carries out his orders to bomb British costal towns. And indeed, this attempt to intimidate British...

The First Battle of Champagne - Dying in Caucasus Snow - Week 22
Right before Christmas the allied powers begin the Champagne offensive, which will last several months. In snow, mud,and under horrible living...

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One month after the outbreak of World War I, Paris is bombarded by German airplanes. Parisians witness a whole new type of warfare. Five pilots from...

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The Great War in Numbers (2017)
The Great War in Numbers tells the complete story of World War I - from outbreak to conclusion - and the fragile peace that followed. It was a war...

Scotland's War at Sea (2015)
Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War.

1915 (1982)
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The Great War: The People's Story (2014)
Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed...