Season 1 (2014)
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Episodes 8
The Attack
An underage French schoolboy is full of patriotic enthusiasm at the start of the war. Against the will of his parents he signs up. His romantic dreams of honour soon give way to disillusionment with modern warfare.
Read MoreThe Escape
A poor Flemish girl is caught stealing. The German occupying forces punish her severely: four months in prison or an impossibly large fine. She flees in secret and passes an electrified security fence at the Belgian border.
Read MoreThe Mountain
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The Odyssey
A twelve-year old American girl flees with her parents from the war in Europe. They board a Dutch freighter which is to bring them to America. On board, the girl discovers a stowaway. The captain wants to catch him.
Read MoreThe Revolution
A ten-year old boy loses his parents in the war. The only thing left to him is his belief in the power of Czarist Russia. He finds refuge in the Russian army and comes to the Eastern Front.
Read MoreThe Punishment
After losing her husband in the Great War, a French mother finds she can no longer cope with the family farm. She only manages to do so when a German prisoner-of-war is assigned to her as a labourer.
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