1 Season
8 Episode
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century - Season 1 Episode 1 Explosion
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished.
Instability in Europe is fueled by Germany's growing militarism, Kaiser Wilhelm II's obsession to match the British Royal Navy, and French and German war plans before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria triggers combat.
- Year: 1996
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: world war i, biography, world war
- Director: Jay Winter, Blaine Baggett
- Cast: Salome Jens