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The Great War extras

After the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the following events today known as the July Crisis, the European powers go...

The war was supposed to be over by Christmas 1915 but instead of peace, 1915 brings ever more escalation. The Ottoman Empire and Italy join the war,...

2 years after the start of the war, three of the biggest battles of human history are fought simultaneously: The Russian Brusilov Offensive, the...

The war gets bigger and bigger as the USA and several other countries join the war. At the same time Russia is drowning in revolutions and pulling...

Even after 3 1/2 years of war, the waring nations still gear for bigger and bigger offensives that will finally bring and end to "the war to end all...

In May 1915, the Central Powers launched one of the greatest offensive operations of the First World War. The armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary...

In the last years of the 19th century, tension was building in the Caribbean. American newspapers were filled with grisly reports of Spanish...

In early 1917, the United States was still neutral in the First World War. Meanwhile, German leaders were getting desperate – if they...

By April 1915, the Western Front was mired in trench warfare. Germany’s new Chief of Staff, General Erich von Falkenhayn, didn’t think...

In the late 19th and early 20th century the great European powers were entangled in a series of escalating crises and wars. Each successive crisis...

Submarines today are highly complex machines crammed with technology and weapons. As impressive as their construction is, as terrifying is their...

Between 1914 and 1945, two major conflicts engulfed the planet. Among the combatants of the First World War, eight men would play a decisive role in...

Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War.

During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.

The Great War in Numbers tells the complete story of World War I - from outbreak to conclusion - and the fragile peace that followed. It was a war...

Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed...