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1914-1918 Documentary - jonnymacbrown - 05-25-2011 This is a very good one, produced by the BBC with many interviews with participants. The episodes are in 4 parts. This one is called "The Web of Alliances." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrD_u20UF0&feature=related RE: 1914-1918 Documentary - Volcano Man - 05-25-2011 Thanks, will check it out. RE: 1914-1918 Documentary - -72- - 05-25-2011 I suspect that the title being used on YouTube was created with an aim towards avoiding association with material that is still under copyright. It looks suspiciously like the BBC documentary: The Great War from 1964 (which was 26 episodes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_%28documentary%29 And readily available on Amazon UK ( and had been released as a newpaper promo in the UK a few years back). http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Great-Complete-Disc/dp/B0000634BA In a lot of ways it set the format for A World at War produced a few years later on. Lots of interviews. I still have to sit down and watch it in its entirity ( got it for a Xmas gift a couple years back). RE: 1914-1918 Documentary - jonnymacbrown - 05-26-2011 "I suspect that the title being used on YouTube was created with an aim towards avoiding association with material that is still under copyright. It looks suspiciously like the BBC documentary: The Great War from 1964 (which was 26 episodes)." There are two WW1 documentaries on You Tube. One is the one I linked to. Each episode comes in 4 segments. The other is not as well done and is seen as if on a television screen. jonny ;) "Thanks, will check it out." Another interesting episode is The Schlieffen Plan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0kvczF1p04 They interview the pilot who flew ahead of Mons and reported to General French that the Germans were massed just before Mons. French shrugged him off saying something like "That's quite impossible. You may have thought you saw something but the Germans are not up ahead." jonny "I suspect that the title being used on YouTube was created with an aim towards avoiding association with material that is still under copyright. It looks suspiciously like the BBC documentary: The Great War from 1964 (which was 26 episodes)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_%28documentary%29 Yes this is the one! It is really good and contains quite a bit of, what was for me, new information. jonny ;)