00:00 [BEEP]
00:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:05 [GUNFIRE]
00:15 For four years, from 1914 to 1918,
00:27 Europe seemed hell-bent on self-destruction.
00:32 In 1914, the Germans attacked.
00:35 War spread, like the Grim Reaper wielding his scythe
00:49 all over the planet, but mostly in Russia, Belgium, Italy,
00:55 France, the Near East, and the Balkans.
00:57 The First World War was a massacre of humanity,
01:04 a monstrous crime.
01:07 10 million people died.
01:10 In France alone, more than a quarter
01:12 of all men in their 20s were killed.
01:14 In 1915, an anonymous soldier dares
01:21 to film a burial brigade at work.
01:23 [FOOTSTEPS]
01:27 In 1916, a survivor of the Battle of Verdun writes,
01:40 "Emotion itself has died.
01:42 Widows, orphans, desperate mothers
01:50 number in the millions."
01:51 But on November 11, 1918, Madame Diaz in Bourges, France,
01:56 learns of the ceasefire.
01:59 The armistice has just been signed.
02:01 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
02:04 Corporal Pierre Selier, sounding his bugle,
02:08 is the first to signal an end to the fighting.
02:10 [BELLS RINGING]
02:14 For 1,562 days, they have waited for this moment.
02:19 [FOOTSTEPS]
02:22 They dig a makeshift grave for the last
02:25 of the war's artillery shells.
02:28 A billion shells have been fired.
02:31 The First World War cost the equivalent
02:34 of $6 trillion in all.
02:35 On the 11th of November, 1918, these men and women
02:42 dream of another kind of world, fair and just.
02:47 Where their children will be happy.
02:49 [BELLS RINGING]
02:52 One of the greatest minds of the 20th century, Austrian writer
02:56 Stefan Zweig writes, "The war was over, but it wasn't over.
03:04 We just didn't know it."
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03:09 [EXPLOSION]
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03:22 (dramatic music)
03:25 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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