| Brief Description: | CBS News produced this historic overview of the issues, events and
dominant personalities of the First World War, painstakingly rendered
through the use of vivid archival and combat footage. The five-volume
program examines the causes of the war, the rise of nationalism, the
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the German sinking of the
Lusitania, the expansion of the war and America's belated involvement.
The program studies the major strategic campaigns in Europe and Asia,
the barbaric nature of trench warfare at Verdun, the massive
destruction and casualties suffered on all sides, the emergence of air
power and the long-term consequences of the war. The program concludes
with a complex reading of the political issues that led to the
peaceful negotiation of the armistice that brokered a precarious
peace. 530 mins. |
