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Season 1

8 episodes · 2006

  1. 11914: To Arms

    01 Jan 2006 · 44 min

  2. 21915: Death in Foreign Fields

    08 Jan 2006 · 45 min

  3. 31916: Stalemate

    15 Jan 2006 · 47 min

  4. 41917: The Breaking of Armies

    22 Jan 2006 · 49 min

  5. 51918: Germany's Last Gamble

    29 Jan 2006 · 48 min

  6. 6Technology: Air Power

    05 Feb 2006 · 50 min

  7. 7Technology: Land Warfare

    12 Feb 2006 · 48 min

    Artillery had changed out of all recognition and the killing power of the machine gun soon rendered the vestiges of 19th Century warfare redundant. The problem was that tactics had not developed to make best use of the new technologies resulting in wholesale slaughter on the Western Front. A new terror weapon emerged in the form of gas which was first used by the Germans on the Eastern Front.

  8. 8Technology: Sea Powerfinale

    19 Feb 2006 · 47 min