The Great War
Rated 8.316 votes19641 season40m
Extensive archive footage and sound effects, linked with contemporary classic music of the era, brings to life the vast history of World War I, concentrated by the commentaries by Michael Redgrave, and some of the finest actors of the 20th-century.
- Created by
- John Terraine, Corelli Barnett
- First aired
- May 30, 1964
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 26
- Country
- GB
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S1 E1: On the Idle Hill of Summer...
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S1 E1 On the Idle Hill of Summer...
May 30, 1964In 1914, the world was on the brink of enormous change. Worried by increasing German militarism, the French and the British entered into the Entente Cordiale against Germany and her allies, splitting Europe into opposing sides. Two shots would ignite the powder keg.
- 1On the Idle Hill of Summer...
- 2For Such a Stupid Reason Too...
- 3We Must Hack Our Way Through
- 4Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre
- 5This Business May Last a Long Time
- 6So Sleep Easy in Your Beds
- 7We Await the Heavenly Manna...
- 8Why Don't You Come and Help?!
- 9Please God Send Us a Victory...
- 10What Are Our Allies Doing?
- 11Hell Cannot Be So Terrible
- 12For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me
- 13The Devil is Coming...
- 14All This It Is Our Duty to Bear
- 15We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost
- 16Right Is More Precious Than Peace
- 17Surely We Have Perished
- 18Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense
- 19The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go
- 20Only War, Nothing but War
- 21It Was like the End of the World
- 22Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In?
- 23When Must the End Be?
- 24Allah Made Mesopotamia – and Added Flies
- 25The Iron Thrones Are Falling
- 26...And We Were Young
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