American Experience
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
Season 2 · Episode 4 ·
The Great War: 1918
All lingering 19th-century notions of the romance of battle were replaced by the terrible reality of 20th-century mechanized warfare. At Verdun, the French lost 300,000 men; at the Somme, the English lost one million. Against this setting, America reluctantly sent its boys to fight. The wrenching and heroic accounts of U.S. soldiers and nurses who served in the closing battles of the bloodiest war of the century.
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Episode 4 of season 2 of American Experience: “The Great War: 1918”. Aired 1989-10-24. Watch it online free on ZapFlix.