Episode guide
The First World War: Season 1
10 episodes · premiered Sep 20, 2003
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- Episode 1: To Arms (1914) Sep 20, 2003 · 1h The 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…
- Episode 2: Under the Eagle (1914-1915) Sep 27, 2003 · 1h The 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…
- Episode 3: Global War (1914-1916) Oct 4, 2003 · 1h War 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…
- Episode 4: Jihad (1914-1916) Oct 11, 2003 · 1h The Ottoman Empire, Germany's ally, summoned all Muslims to Jihad - holy war - to overthrow Allied power in the Middle East. They proved a formidable foe, as the Allies found to their cost…
- Episode 5: Shackled to a Corpse (1914-1916) Oct 18, 2003 · 1h As the Germans and Austrians clashed with The Russians on the bitter Eastern Front, Italy became embroiled in a terrible slaughter.
- Episode 6: Breaking the Deadlock (1915-1917) Oct 25, 2003 · 1h Attrition, "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…
- Episode 7: Blockade (1916-1917) Nov 1, 2003 · 1h The war at sea was every bit as bitter as the war on land. The battle at Jutland proved inconclusive but the U-Boat menace threatened Britain as never before. Meanwhile, America entered…
- Episode 8: Revolution (1917) Nov 8, 2003 · 1h The effect of the Great War shattered nations, inspired mass mutinies by desperate troops, caused great upheaval on the home front and changed the world forever.
- Episode 9: Germany's Last Gamble (1918) Nov 15, 2003 · 1h Over one million German troops were committed to Kaiserschlacht - the last great offensive of the war - while conflict still raged on many other fronts.
- Episode 10: War Without End (1918- ) Nov 22, 2003 · 1h The dramatic Allied victory at Amiens led to victory in just 100 days - and the signing of a bitterly-resented peace, while other nations stumbled towards their own ceasefire agreements.