22 Episodes – Week by Week
Follow this documentary as it happened day by day, week by week.
World War I (WW1) also known as the First World War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28th July 1914 and lasted until 11th November 1918. The war lasted exactly four years, three months and 14 days. Before World War II began in 1939, World War I was called the Great War, the World War or the War to End all Wars. 135 countries took part in World War I, and more than 15 million people died.
Week 1 - Outbreak of WW1
Week 2 - Germany on Two Fronts
Week 3 - Deployment Of Troops
Week 4 - Old Generals
Week 5 - Belgium
Week 6 - Plans Are Doomed
Week 7 - Taxi To The Front
Week 8 - Welcome To Dirt
Week 9 - The Russians
Week 10 - Dying In The Mud
Week 11 - Back For Christmas
Week 12 - Learn From Napoleon
4 Years, 3 Months, 14 Days........ Lest We Forget
Week 13 - A War To End All Wars
Week 14 - Young Troops
Week 15 - The Ottoman Empire
Week 16 - The Defensive War
Week 17 - The Enemy Within
Week 18 - Fight For Resources
Week 19 - Mission Accomplished
Week 20 - The Falklands
Week 21 - Raid on Scarborough
Week 22 - Battle Of Champagne
World War I began on June 28, 1914. World War 1 was triggered on 28 June 1914 by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his pregnant wife Sophie. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was the nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the throne of Austria and Hungary. The assassination was planned by a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand and the man who shot Franz Ferdinand and his wife was a Bosnian revolutionary named Gavrilo Princip.