Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Days That Shook the World

0: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner who...

01: A House Divided | Royal Cousins at War

How the tangled relationships and emerging rivalries between Europe's royal houses at the outbreak of the First World War played a...

02: Into the Abyss | Royal Cousins at War

The roles played by cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England in the desperate,...

1: 1918 Western Front | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

The Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.

1: Commemoration | Not Forgotten

Commemoration, examining the movement for war memorials following the First World War, and the continuation of this tradition for subsequent...

1: Explosion | 1914-1918

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.

1: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian, ...

1: The Approach of War | History File

The first section asks who was to blame for the war.

1: The Dreadnoughts of Scapa Flow | War at Sea: Scotland's Story

First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of the No...

1: War Comes to Britain | Britain's Great War

Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode focus...

10: What Are Our Allies Doing? | The Great War

The war continues throughout 1915. Towering over all else was the mighty German offensive of Gorlice-Tarnow, where the Russian...

11: Hell Cannot Be So Terrible | The Great War

This episode looks at the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest clashes in history, which lasted for ten months during 1916.

12: For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me | The Great War

Over two million volunteers respond to Kitchener's appeal of 1916, and many are sent to the killing grounds of the Somme.

13: The Devil Is Coming | The Great War

The Battle of the Somme began in July 1916. By February 1917, an irreparable blow had been struck at the German Army, but at the cost...

14: All This It Is Our Duty to Bear | The Great War

By the end of 1916 a compromise peace is considered, but the new leaders are committed to seeking total victory - at any ...

15: We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost | The Great War

This episode explores the attempts to rally the French Army for a spring offensive, but they began to openly mutiny.

16: Right Is More Precious than Peace | The Great War

In 1917, the October revolution brought the Communists to power in Russia, while America entered into the war on 6th Ap...

17: Surely We Have Perished | The Great War

Morale becomes impossible to sustain as the battle of Passchendaele lasts through the summer of 1917.

18: Fat Rodzyanko Has Sent me Some Nonsense | The Great War

Following the October Revolution, Russian enthusiasm for the war heartens the Allies and alarms the Germans.

19: The Hell where Youth and Laughter Go | The Great War

A look at the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front and the effect this had upon the human spirit.