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Series telling the history of the Great War. Experts thought technical advances in weaponry would bring about a quick victory, but armies soon resorted to trench warfare.

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1: Explosion | 1914-1918

BBC Knowledge | 2001 | 47'27''

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.

3: What If...Total War | 1914-1918

BBC Knowledge | 2001 | 48'14''

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War. With deadlock in the trenches, the great powers searched for other ways to break ...

4: Slaughter | 1914-1918

BBC Knowledge | 2001 | 48'35''

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele w...

5: Mutiny | 1914-1918

BBC Knowledge | 2001 | 48'50''

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War through the words of those who lived through the conflict. By the start of 1917, the strain of ...

6: Collapse | 1914-1918

BBC Knowledge | 2001 | 47'23''

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. This part looks at the poverty and unrest among the G...

7: Legacy | 1914-1918

BBC Knowledge | 2001 | 46'44''

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War concludes with the post-war peace negotiations and the unfair treatment of the defeated Germans...

2: Stalemate | 1914-1918

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