Overview
The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?
Cast
Christian Brückner
3 episodes
Sönke Neitzel
3 episodes
Ian Kershaw
3 episodes
Tim Pigott-Smith
3 episodes
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
3 episodes
Stig Förster
2 episodes
Hew Strachan
2 episodes
Piet Chielens
2 episodes
Paul von Hindenburg
2 episodes
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
2 episodes
Alan Kramer
1 episodes
King George V of the United Kingdom
1 episodes
Viktoria Luise von Preußen
1 episodes
Annette Becker
1 episodes
Stefan Martens
1 episodes
Nicolas Beaupré
1 episodes
Vladimir Lenin
1 episodes
Erich Ludendorff
1 episodes
Philipp Scheidemann
1 episodes
Manfred von Richthofen
1 episodes
George S. Patton
1 episodes
Media
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