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WWI: The First Modern War

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Season 1
Get a firsthand look at how a new breed of weapons like WMDs, submarines, armored tanks and air attacks changed modern warfare forever.
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  1. S1 E1 - Trial by Fire

    May 25, 2014
    1 h 28 min
    TV-14
    An assassin's bullet sparks a global conflict that quickly evolves into the deadliest war humanity has ever seen. In the chaos, a new generation of soldiers - and world leaders - emerges. Jeremy Renner narrates.
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  2. S1 E2 - A Rising Threat

    May 26, 2014
    1 h 28 min
    TV-14
    The fighting may have stopped, but tensions around the world continue to simmer just beneath the surface - and the seeds of the next great global conflict have already been sown. Jeremy Renner narrates.
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  3. S1 E3 - Never Surrender

    May 27, 2014
    1 h 28 min
    TV-14
    War inevitably breaks out again. The men who came of age in battle now must rely upon past experiences to fight a new conflict as they face the greatest challenge humanity has ever seen. Jeremy Renner narrates.
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  4. S1 E4 - Christmas Truce, The

    December 16, 2002
    45min
    TV-PG
    By December 1914, all thoughts of a quick World War I victory had faded. But on Christmas Eve, an astonishing event took place: Up and down the Western Front, Allied and German soldiers met peacefully in No Man's Land.
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  5. S1 E5 - World War I Tech

    July 29, 2004
    45min
    TV-PG
    See how technological achievements that streamlined 19th-century production, improved transportation, and expanded science were used to efficiently decimate a generation of soldiers in the early 20th century.
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  6. S1 E6 - Mystery U-Boat Of World War I

    October 24, 2004
    45min
    TV-PG
    The wrecks of a German submarine and an English steamship were discovered over 30 miles from where they were thought to have sunk in World War I. Host John Chatterton dives deep to piece together what really happened.
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  7. S1 E7 - Convoy Pq17/Battle Crusier Disaster Jutland

    August 28, 1999
    43min
    TV-G
    Take a look back at the sinking of half of one of the largest Anglo-American convoys to sail to Russia in World War II.
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  8. S1 E8 - Sinking Of The Lusitania/Treaty Of Versailles

    October 9, 1999
    43min
    TV-G
    See how the Lusitania sailed into history, leading the U.S. into World War I, and how the blistering conditions imposed by the Allies on post-war Germany resulted in the rise of Nazism.
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  9. S1 E9 - Most Decorated, The: The Doughboys

    May 19, 1997
    45min
    TV-G
    The U.S. teens who marched into Europe's Great War could not have anticipated the horrors of modern warfare. Host Gerald McRaney explains how outdated tactics would turn an infantry charge into an act of mass suicide.
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Directors

John Ealer

Cast

Maximilian KlasIan BeytsJacopo RampiniJonathan HartmanNabil VinasDean GosdinDon Meehan Jr.Michael Perrie Jr.Don HartmanC. Conrad Cady

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