1 – Fury
On June 28, 1914, an obscure Austrian archduke’s assassination in Sarajevo triggers a disastrous conflict. The French army stops the German advance at the battle of the Marne, while the Germans halt the Russians at Tannenberg on the eastern front. In France, the warring parties dig themselves in for 4 years in the trenches. Soldiers from the colonies come lend a hand to their colonizers and the war becomes global. https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/fear
2 – Fear
The French army stops the German advance at the battle of the Marne, while the Germans halt the Russians at Tannenberg on the eastern front.
3 – Hell
1916: The war is raging in Europe and stretches from the trenches in France to the Italian Alps and the Balkans, and beyond to the gates of the East.
4 – Rage
1917: People have had enough of the war. Uprisings are brewing, like the one that toppled the czar in Russia.
5 – Deliverance
All seems lost for the Allies when the Italians are defeated at Caporette and Bolshevik Russia pulls out of the war.
Never-Ending War, Part 1 – 1918. The Great War comes to an end after four years of fierce fighting. At the end of this ‘total war’ those who’ve survived become aware that the world of the past century has disappeared into an abyss of suffering.
Never-Ending War, Part 2 – Hatred, fear, and resentment re-emerge from the depths of societies traumatized by war. And so begins a chaotic period during which the new world order provokes revolution, counter-revolution, nationalist insurrection and civil war.