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The Great War, American Experience Films ; series producers, Stephen Ives, Amanda Pollak ; an Insignia Films production for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation

eng

videorecording

The Great War

975891651

American Experience Films ; series producers, Stephen Ives, Amanda Pollak ; an Insignia Films production for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation

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American experience

In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as 'doughboys.'

Part one. The Great War begins -- A neutral nation -- Atrocities in Belgium -- Volunteers for France -- The American peace movement -- The Lusitania -- Edith Wharton's war -- The poison of disloyalty -- The Lafayette Escadrille -- Prepare for war -- The election of 1916 -- Rendezvous with death -- The declaration of war -- End creditsPart two. The American war begins -- Pershing's challenge -- The draft -- Mobilization -- A regiment for Harlem -- Alice Paul -- Food conservation -- Harlem's soldiers in France -- Wilson's fourteen points -- The Harlem Hellfighters -- The Sedition Act -- The battle of the Second Marne -- End creditsPart three. Wilson's message of hope -- The battle of the Meuse-Argonne -- Influenza -- The war comes home -- Eddie Rickenbacker -- The lost battalion -- The Choctaw code talkers -- The Armistice -- Repression at home -- The Versailles peace conference -- Red summer -- Death of the League of Nations -- End credits

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live action

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