American Experience
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.
Episodes in Season 2
The Great Air Race of 1924
55 min
Demon Rum
55 min
A Family Gathering
55 min
The Great War: 1918
55 min
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
55 min
Forever Baseball
55 min
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
55 min
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
55 min
Adam Clayton Powell
55 min
Journey to America
55 min
Ballad of a Mountain Man
55 min
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
55 min
Orphans of the Storm
55 min
Forbidden City, USA
55 min
Battle for Wilderness
55 min
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
55 min