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Sinopse
The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.
Episódios
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USA: Isolationism
27/06/2015 Duração: 50minHow did WW1 change America's place in the world? Jonathan Dimbleby presents a public debate from the US Library of Congress in Washington
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Germany: The Waging of War
26/06/2015 Duração: 50minHow did technological and industrial development revolutionise World War One? The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins were like nothing that had been experienced before.
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Sarajevo: Nationalism
26/06/2015 Duração: 50minA century ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war. How did the peace made after WW1 influence the ethnic conflicts in the region during the 1990s?
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Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East
22/06/2015 Duração: 49minHow did World War One change the face of the Middle East? And, how did this seismic and controversial period shape the century to follow?
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Britain: The Psychology of War
30/04/2015 Duração: 50minWhat drove men to volunteer to fight during World War One? What drove them to the edge of sanity when they got there?
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Australia: The Legend of Anzac
18/04/2015 Duração: 50minAustralia's experience of WW1 is like no other country's. What role has the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred-year history of Australia?
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Tanzania: Race and Colonial War
11/04/2015 Duração: 50minAudrey Brown chairs a discussion on the effects of World War One in Africa. She hears the stories from African fighters, on both the German and British sides. And she speaks to Tanzanians who tell their family memories, like Oswald Masebo from Dar es Salaam University.
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France: Heroism
06/12/2014 Duração: 49minLife in the trenches during World War One, amongst rats, mud, shelling, barbed wire and unprecedented numbers of dead, called upon new reserves of both endurance and courage. But what did the war do to the ancient idea of heroism?
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WW1 At Home 20 - The Baghdadi Jews & a Terrier on Zeppelin watch
13/11/2014 Duração: 14minHow Manchester’s Baghdadi Jews fought to be recognised as friends of Britain and Jim the dog who helped keep the Kent coast safe.
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India: Imperialism
08/11/2014 Duração: 50minHugely influential in the outcome of the war, its aftermath had a huge effect on India and its role in the British Empire.
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WW1 At Home 19 - Tank Trials & Making Jam for the Frontline
23/10/2014 Duração: 15minThe technical innovation that led to the birth of the tank, tales from the grandsons of the Guernsey soldier who travelled all over the world and the factory in Grimsby that supplied the frontline in jam.
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Soldiers of the Empire 2/2 – The Fight in Fairyland
22/10/2014 Duração: 28minSantanu Das tells the story of the Indian Army on the Western Front, from disembarkation in Marseilles where the troops were greeted by excited crowds, to the grim reality of the trenches.
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Soldiers of the Empire – Recruitment & Resistance
20/10/2014 Duração: 27minOne and a half million Indian men were recruited from the villages and towns of British India to serve the Empire in the First World War. Santanu Das tells the story of how they were recruited to travel across the Kalopani, the "dark waters", to take part in the world's first industrial war.
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St Petersburg: Revolution
18/10/2014 Duração: 50minThe Romanovs ruled Russia for centuries until World War One brought revolution and an abrupt end to their imperial reign. Allan Little explores the legacy of revolution and the hidden impact of WW1 on Russian policy today.
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WW1 At Home 18 - R&R for American Volunteers & a Bristol Love Song
16/10/2014 Duração: 16minA place in the heart of London where the American soldiers got a little taste of home; a project mapping the lives of nearly 2000 men in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, who died in WW1 & a song to love and loss based on letters to a Bristolian wife.
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Keep the Home Fires Burning
11/10/2014 Duração: 55minDon Black tells the fascinating story of Ivor Novello and the song that made his name. Keep The Home Fires Burning marks the centenary of a song that became popular both in the WW1 trenches and on the home front, and continued to be sung by soldiers in conflicts well into the 1950s. The programme features the best Ivor Novello tunes, some extraordinary Imperial War Museum archive and explores how music was used as a morale booster in the First World War.
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WW1 At Home 17 - The Sikh Contribution & the Merseyside Ferries
10/10/2014 Duração: 14minThe two Merseyside ferries who earned their 'Royal' title in a daring wartime raid, a Coventry memorial which marks the Sikhs role in World War One, and why thousands of mules trotted through the town of Minehead.
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Episode 3 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War
09/10/2014 Duração: 29minIn the third part of his documentary looking at the Asian contribution to WW1, Sarfraz Manzoor examines the effect of WW1 on India, nationally and locally. Through letters from servicemen and families, the loss to loved ones becomes clear - not just on an emotional level, but also leading to hardship for farming communities often losing their strongest workers. The beginnings of nationalism can be seen just before the war with the violent activities of the Ghadar party, but a more mainstream nationalist voice gathers increasing strength as the war comes to a close. Besides the contribution of men, in 1918 and 1919, India comes very close to famine as a result of the huge amount of foodstuffs it supplied for the war effort.
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WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer
02/10/2014 Duração: 14minKate Adie reports on the Nottinghamshire munitions factory disaster. Also - the ambulance trains of Lowth & forces sweetheart, Gertie Gitana, who became a wartime music hall star.
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WW1 At Home 15 - Pilot Hero Mick Mannock & Flora Sandes' Enlistment
24/09/2014 Duração: 14minThree WW1 characters. Flora Sandes, who enlisted and fought as a soldier in Serbia. Mick Mannock, the British 'Ace of Aces'; and 3 yr old Khaki George, who collected funds for the war effort on the streets of Halifax.