Tue, Sep 29, 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.
Tue, Sep 22, 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."