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00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,

00:00:31,488 --> 00:00:37,France, 1918. For four years
cameramen from around the world,

00:00:37,111 --> 00:00:39,risk with their lives to film these images.

00:00:40,005 --> 00:00:44,Sometimes they re-created scenes afterwards,
in order to preserve them in our memory.

00:00:45,134 --> 00:00:48,We have enhanced their
images with color and sound.

00:00:58,087 --> 00:01:02,November 11, 1918, 11 in the morning;

00:01:03,258 --> 00:01:07,suddenly silence,
the armistice has been signed.

00:01:08,394 --> 00:01:11,Bugles and church bells
sounds cease-fire.

00:01:26,403 --> 00:01:30,Moments before, Private George
Lawrence Price, a Canadian, is killed.

00:01:30,545 --> 00:01:33,He is the wars last fallen soldier.

00:01:33,396 --> 00:01:37,APOCALYPSE

00:01:37,468 --> 00:01:40,World War I

00:01:40,412 --> 00:01:46,From 1914 to 1918, nearly 80 million
people were plunged into the war.

00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:57,10 million soldiers died; mowed down
by bullets, blown to pieces by bombs,

00:01:57,836 --> 00:02:02,incinerated, starved,
devoured by rats and lice,

00:02:02,372 --> 00:02:05,and killed by the epidemics
that thrive on misery.

00:02:06,097 --> 00:02:08,20 million more were wounded.

00:02:13,219 --> 00:02:17,What lunacy took hold of the Austrians, Serbs,

00:02:17,878 --> 00:02:23,Russians, Germans, the French,
with their colonies,

00:02:24,965 --> 00:02:27,the British with their empire,

00:02:31,148 --> 00:02:37,the Italians, the Japanese,
the Turks, and the Americans?

00:02:39,518 --> 00:02:42,The survivors can count themselves lucky.

00:02:47,908 --> 00:02:50,But they have lost their youth

00:02:54,955 --> 00:02:57,or their face

00:02:58,482 --> 00:03:00,or their sanity.

00:03:02,208 --> 00:03:04,How did the world unleash this fury?

00:03:12,432 --> 00:03:16,1914, who are the men of this period,

00:03:16,926 --> 00:03:20,so carefree yet so close to war?

00:03:21,930 --> 00:03:25,Many of them are peasants,
attached to their land,

00:03:27,349 --> 00:03:29,their traditions, and the religions.

00:03:32,546 --> 00:03:35,They feel safe.
It’s been almost half a century

00:03:36,026 --> 00:03:38,since the last large
European conflict.

00:03:41,261 --> 00:03:45,The well-to-do enjoyed
a fine summer of 1914.

00:03:54,041 --> 00:03:58,René Ferrari, 34,
from a line of Italian immigrants,

00:03:58,065 --> 00:04:02,who made their fortune in heating,
is one of the first home-movie enthusiasts.

00:04:03,345 --> 00:04:06,He believes the film will preserve
the image of his happiness,

00:04:06,868 --> 00:04:09,not realizing how fragile it is.

00:04:11,430 --> 00:04:15,René is married to Jacqueline.
They have three children,

00:04:17,239 --> 00:04:20,Pierre, Claude, and Alain,

00:04:22,103 --> 00:04:25,and a faithful maid Alphonsine.

00:04:26,768 --> 00:04:29,They live a short distance
from the railroad.

00:04:29,692 --> 00:04:33,Trains are so modern and practical,
they go everywhere now.

00:04:34,775 --> 00:04:37,Soon they will transport armies.

00:04:38,089 --> 00:04:40,The train takes them to the French Alps

00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:44,where they go ice climbing with only
a cane and the dress shoes,

00:04:47,675 --> 00:04:50,and a sense of balance.

00:05:00,332 --> 00:05:03,Vienna, 1914.

00:05:07,883 --> 00:05:13,The great writer Stefan Zweig recalls the
capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire:

00:05:13,976 --> 00:05:18,“New theaters, libraries,
and museums were springing up everywhere.

00:05:18,949 --> 00:05:21,There was progress everywhere”.

00:05:21,744 --> 00:05:25,“What could interrupt this rapid ascent;
dampen the élan,

00:05:25,479 --> 00:05:28,which constantly drew new
force from his own soaring?”

00:05:30,822 --> 00:05:33,"A wondrous carefree spirit
brings the world over".

00:05:34,489 --> 00:05:39,"Never has Europe been stronger,
richer, more beautiful,

00:05:40,415 --> 00:05:43,or more confident of an even better future".

00:05:52,374 --> 00:05:58,It is still “la Belle époque” of
the early 1900s but not for all.

00:06:02,442 --> 00:06:07,Workers, putting twice the hours as
those of today, yet earn half as much.

00:06:12,468 --> 00:06:15,Women earn a mere half
of the slave wages.

00:06:16,301 --> 00:06:20,In theory,
children under 12 do not work in mines.

00:06:34,090 --> 00:06:39,In France, Jean Jaures is the
great leader of the working class.

00:06:40,291 --> 00:06:42,He is worried.

00:06:43,777 --> 00:06:48,He knows that among Europe's elite,
many captains of industry speak openly of war

00:06:48,487 --> 00:06:51,that will end the movement
for workers’ demands.

00:07:00,088 --> 00:07:06,Jaures writes: “Your violent and chaotic
society, even when it pretends to seek peace,

00:07:06,912 --> 00:07:11,carries within it war,
just as rain clouds carry the storm”.

00:07:14,224 --> 00:07:16,“The arms race is very good for business,

00:07:18,337 --> 00:07:21,the great European powers prepare for war,

00:07:21,217 --> 00:07:24,for endless military service
trains men for war”.

00:07:30,461 --> 00:07:33,“War and death hover over the planet”.

00:07:36,413 --> 00:07:41,For centuries the rival empires have been
divvying up the world with their swords.

00:07:42,230 --> 00:07:46,Britain's conquest reaches’ as
far as Australia, and Canada;

00:07:47,483 --> 00:07:50,Frances from Indochina to Africa.

00:07:53,224 --> 00:07:58,Germany also has colonies but
wants a larger slice of the pie.

00:08:02,290 --> 00:08:06,Prior to 1871, Prussia was a divided state.

00:08:06,993 --> 00:08:11,By crushing France and annexing the
French provinces d'Alsace and Lorraine,

00:08:11,532 --> 00:08:14,it has become the German Empire.

00:08:15,275 --> 00:08:22,The Emperor of Germany, Wilhelm II, 55,
surrounds himself with his military leaders.

00:08:22,077 --> 00:08:26,He orders the building of a Navy
that will surpass England’s fleet.

00:08:32,097 --> 00:08:35,He wants to give Germany
its place in the Sun.

00:08:46,574 --> 00:08:49,June 15, 1914.

00:08:49,150 --> 00:08:53,Wilhelm II celebrates the
25th anniversary of his reign.

00:08:53,292 --> 00:08:58,He loves to parade but can mount his horse
only from a stool because of his handicap.

00:09:06,016 --> 00:09:12,An accident of birth left them with a withered
left arm that he usually poses a tapas sword.

00:09:19,606 --> 00:09:24,After years of failed treatments,
he has developed an unstable character

00:09:24,564 --> 00:09:27,and is prone to violent outbursts of anger.

00:09:34,102 --> 00:09:37,He is married to his
cousin Augusta Victoria.

00:09:40,230 --> 00:09:45,They have the same grandmother,
the British sovereign Queen Victoria.

00:09:45,964 --> 00:09:52,She characterized Wilhelm as a hotheaded,
conceited, and wrongheaded young man.

00:09:58,793 --> 00:10:03,Wilhelm has a conflicted relationship
with his English Royal family,

00:10:03,068 --> 00:10:05,so powerful and dominating.

00:10:06,147 --> 00:10:11,One day, while hunting,
he hurts himself and screams revealingly:

00:10:11,065 --> 00:10:13,“This damned English blood”.

00:10:15,777 --> 00:10:19,For Wilhelm II the United
Kingdom has been a threat,

00:10:19,469 --> 00:10:23,ever since it formed the triple
alliance with France and Russia.

00:10:23,538 --> 00:10:28,As a result, Germany feels
surrounded and thus vulnerable.

00:10:31,940 --> 00:10:36,Its only true ally is the
Austro-Hungarian Empire,

00:10:36,992 --> 00:10:41,an amalgam of smaller nations,
which is been rained over for 60 years

00:10:41,089 --> 00:10:44,by Franz Joseph I, 84.

00:10:52,611 --> 00:10:57,His long life is been punctuated by tragedy;
the suicide of his son,

00:10:57,353 --> 00:11:01,and the assassination of his wife,
Empress Elizabeth,

00:11:01,510 --> 00:11:05,CC, as she was known,
as the sweetheart of his youth.

00:11:09,176 --> 00:11:14,He is now an old Emperor,
many of whose subjects demanded independence,

00:11:14,122 --> 00:11:18,he rules a tinderbox,
but Franz Joseph and his arrogant officers,

00:11:18,792 --> 00:11:22,and politicians oppose reform of any kind.

00:11:26,643 --> 00:11:30,His empire is referred to
as the joyful Apocalypse.

00:11:39,780 --> 00:11:44,The waltzing and festivities continue
unabated as at the marriage of the Zita,

00:11:44,433 --> 00:11:48,lovely Princess to Karl,
to Emperor’s grandnephew.

00:11:55,342 --> 00:11:58,But it is his nephew; Franz Ferdinand,

00:11:59,030 --> 00:12:02,he was the heir,
presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

00:12:02,805 --> 00:12:06,Franz Ferdinand is married to
the Countess Sophie Chotek,

00:12:06,944 --> 00:12:09,an aristocrat but not of royal blood.

00:12:11,227 --> 00:12:17,Franz Joseph does...