Through letters and diaries, individuals from different backgrounds experience the personal tragedies, emotions, and human experience of World War I, revealed through dramatic reconstruction.
Where to Watch Great War Diaries • Season 1
8 Episodes
Episode 1
E1
Episode 1Forty years of complex political strife come to a head in 1914 when the assassination of an Austrian royal propels Europe into war.
Episode 2
E2
Episode 2As the conflict in Europe spreads to the rest of the world, 20 million men join the fighting and the generals learn that modern weapons immense casualties.
Episode 3
E3
Episode 3The naive beginnings of the Great War have been replaced by agonized daily reality and every nation desperately calls for medical professionals.
The Heart's Desire
E4
The Heart's DesireBehind the front women, mothers, daughters struggle with the doubt. Are their beloved men, sons, fathers alive or are they killed? In Berlin, Kathe Kolwitz receives sad news: her son has fallen on the battlefield in Flanders..
The Annihilation
E5
The AnnihilationWorld War IV has ravaged Earth, and its survivors must battle for food, shelter and companionship in a post-atomic wasteland.
The Home Front
E6
The Home FrontOn the home front, women, children and the elderly work hard to support the soldiers at the front and survive the threat of encroaching hostilities.
The Uprising
E7
The UprisingIn 1917, citizens and soldiers across Europe and Russia grow tired of the endless strife and rebel by going on strike and refusing to obey orders.
The Tipping Point
E8
The Tipping PointAfter the United States enters the war, the Allies launch a counter offensive that finally threatens to break the might of the exhausted German forces.
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