Episode list

An investigation into the beginnings of the conflict known as 'The War to End All Wars', including the overall impact of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.

The French army stops the German advance at the battle of the Marne, while the Germans halt the Russians at Tannenberg on the eastern front.

1916. The conflict becomes industrial, and millions of shells rain down on the battlefields; Verdun and the Somme are the deadliest battles in this second year of the war.

1917: People have had enough of the war. Uprisings are brewing, like the one that toppled the czar in Russia.

All seems lost for the Allies. The Italians are defeated at Caporette, and a Bolshevik Russia pulls out of the war.