The Great War: 1914-1918

The Great War: 1914-1918

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
📺 Series 1 seasons GB
โ˜… 8.4 /10 1996

The World War of 1914-18 - The Great War, as contemporaries called it -- was the first man-made catastrophe of the 20th century. Historians can easily identify the literal "smoking gun" that set the War in motion: a revolver used by a Serbian nationalist to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne) in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. But scholars are still debating the underlying causes. Was it the desire for greater empire, wealth and territory? A massive arms race? The series of treaties which ensured that once one power went to war, all of Europe would quickly follow? Was it social turmoil and changing artistic sensibilities brought about by the Industrial Revolution? Or was it simply a miscalculation by rulers and generals in power? The answer provided in "The Great War and The Shaping of the 20th Century" is that all of these volatile elements combined to set off a gigantic explosion we now know as World War I.

Cast

Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Narrator
Salome Jens
Salome Jens
Narrator (U.S.A Verison)
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Jay Winter
Self
Self
Jürgen Prochnow
Jürgen Prochnow
Otto Dix
Jürgen Prochnow
Jürgen Prochnow
Captain Peter Strasser
Jürgen Prochnow
Jürgen Prochnow
Fritz Nagel
Michael York
Michael York
French Socialist
Michael York
Michael York
Harold Owen
Michael York
Michael York
Henri Designot
Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson
Colonel Alfred Knox
Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson
David Lloyd George
Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson
General Sir Ian Hamilton
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith
Philip Gibbs
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith
Harold Nicholson
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith
Ward Muir
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Siegfried Sassoon
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Wilfred Owen
Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron
Czarina Aleksandra Romanov
Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron
Madame Camille Dumont