The First World War
Season 1
200310 episodes
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- S1 E1 - To ArmsSeptember 20, 200350minThe First World War shaped the twentieth century. It sparked the Russian Revolution, and it launched America as a world power. The fault-line from its failed peace settlement led to a second terrible world war barely twenty years later.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E2 - Under the EagleSeptember 27, 200350minThe first months of the war on the Western Front were mobile, fast and dangerous; casualty rates were higher than with later trench warfare. The Germans were halted by the Allies at the Battle of the Mame, fell back to high ground and dug in. The Allies followed suit.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E3 - Global WarOctober 4, 200350minWar for Europe meant war for the world. Germany gambled that Britain might risk everything to protect her Empire - even victory on the Western Front. So, to divert British resources, maverick German commanders led the British a dance; across the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E4 - JihadOctober 11, 200350minThe Ottoman Empire, Germany's ally, summoned all Muslims to Jihad - holy war - to overthrow Allied power in the Middle East.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E5 - Shackled to a CorpseOctober 18, 200350minThe war on the Eastern Front was racial; Slav verses Teuton. It was highly mobile, fought across brutal terrain from the Urais to the Alps. It initiated many horros of twentieth century warfare: chemical weapons, mass expulsions of civilians, the persecution of Jews.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E6 - Breaking the DeadlockOctober 25, 200350minAttrition, "lions led by donkeys", the slaughter only ceasing for a brief truce one Christmas - old, mistaken views of the war on the Western Front. In fact there was constant tactical evolutions; hundreds of generals died in action; some men adopted a system of "Live and Let Live", with countless informal local truces.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E7 - BlockadeNovember 1, 200350minThe British expected a second Trafalgar - but within days German submarines turned the North Sea into a no-go area for Britain's great battleships. The British responded with a blockade of Europe to starve the enemy out.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E8 - RevolutionNovember 8, 200350minIncreasingly governments faced the risk of their men mutinying, morale cracking, and civilians rising up in strikes and civil disobedience. As governments worried about containing unrest at home, they set agents working to foment revolution among the enemy.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E9 - Germany's Last GambleNovember 15, 200350minIn March 1918 Germany launched a massive offensive on the Western Front - her bid to win the war before the Americans arrived.This video is currently unavailable
- S1 E10 - War Without EndNovember 22, 200350minThe war's last months were more destructive than trench warfare had been. Germany remained on French soil, believing herself unbeaten. The Armistice was the Allie's bid to obtain - on paper - Germany's unconditional surrender. At Versailles she was made to shoulder the blame for the war, to force her to pay for it. The war, with losses over 20 million, was later deemed as a senseless waste.This video is currently unavailable
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