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Mon, Sep 21, 1964
This half-hour documentary series uses film from news, official and private sources, to explore World War I. Tonight: "The Summer of Sarajevo." We see a complacent, confident Europe in 1914 shaken by the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand, an event seized by German and Austrian leaders as a motive for unleashing the war they had plotted for years. We see their reprisals against Serbia; the crowned heads of Europe mobilizing their armies; and people in Britain and France marching jauntily off to war. In Germany, there was cheering and waving as the Kaiser told his people they would "go to war with God on their side."
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Mon, Sep 28, 1964
"Clash of the Generals" examines the French and German battle plans and explains how and why each failed. Cameras view the generals of both nations; German terror weapons demolishing Liege; French poilus liberating and losing the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine; and the astonishing French victory at the Marne, won with the aid of the taxicab army.
Mon, Nov 23, 1964
More than anything else, the trenches served to prolong the war and brutalize the soldiers who lived and died in their nightmarish squalor. Cameras view the trench fortifications, the weapons and the tactics developed to attack and defend them, and the Battle of the Somme, where the British introduced the first crude tanks in an attempt to break through the German trench lines.
Mon, Nov 30, 1964
In 1915, the Allies attacked the Gallipoli Peninsula in hopes of breaking the stalemate on the Western Front and opening the Black Sea ports of tottering Czarist Russia. Maps and films show the strategy and tragedy on the bloody beaches, where First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill's plan met with disaster.