How the bickering kingdoms of Europe triggered a war that would rage for 4 years and result in over 37 million casualties. Using rare archive footage, this extraordinary documentary tells the story of the origins of the world's first global war. Based on Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, the film shows the rivalry between the various Royal Houses in Europe leading up to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand - which triggered the catastrophe to come. And, it presents t...
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Documentary that sets out to tell the story behind the events leading up to the First World War. Narrated by Fritz Weaver, the film uses archive footage to bring to life the range of tensions among the various strands of European monarchy which placed the continent on a knife edge in the early months of 1914. The assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand on Sunday 28th June of that year was the trigger for a terrible four-year conflict that cost millions of lives and caused untold physical and emotional damage.
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