Directed by The Great Courses

Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

World War I was the first conflict in which entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, investing all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

The Century's Initial Catastrophe

Episode 2

Europe in 1914

Episode 3

Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture

Episode 4

Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914

Episode 5

The August Madness

Episode 6

The Failed Gambles - War Plans Break Down

Episode 7

The Western Front Experience

Episode 8

Life and Death in the Trenches

Episode 9

The Great Battles of Attrition

Episode 10

The Eastern Front Experience

Episode 11

The Southern Fronts

Episode 12

War Aims and Occupations

Episode 13

Soldiers as Victims

Episode 14

Storm Troopers and Future Dictators

Episode 15

The Total War of Technology

Episode 16

Air War

Episode 17

War at Sea

Episode 18

The Global Reach of the War

Episode 19

The War State

Episode 20

Propaganda War

Episode 21

Endurance and Stress on the Home Front

Episode 22

Dissent and Its Limits

Episode 23

Remobilization in 1916 - 1917

Episode 24

Armenian Massacres - Tipping into Genocide

Episode 25

Strains of War - Socialists and Nationalists

Episode 26

Russian Revolutions

Episode 27

America's Entry into the War

Episode 28

America at War - Over There and Over Here

Episode 29

1918 - The German Empire's Last Gamble

Episode 30

The War's End - Emotions of the Armistice

Episode 31

Toppled Thrones - The Collapse of Empires

Episode 32

The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement

Episode 33

Aftershocks - Reds, Whites, and Nationalists

Episode 34

Monuments, Memory, and Myths

Episode 35

The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships

Episode 36

Legacies of the Great War