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Created by George Lucas.
Originally broadcast on television from 1992-1996.
Contains select episodes from the television series.
Some episodes may be edited from their original network versions.
Special features: Disc 1: The Somme: storm of steel; Siegfried Sassoon: a war poet's journey; Robert Graves and the White Goddess; I am France: the myth of Charles de Gaulle ; Disc 2: Into the furnace: the Battle of Verdun; Marshal Petain's fall from grace; Flirting with danger: the fantasy of Mata Hari; Reading the enemy's mind: espionage in World War I ; Disc 3: Chasing the phantom: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck; Dreaming of Africa: the life of Frederick Selous; At home and abroad: the two faces of Jan Smuts ; Disc 4: Albert Schweitzer: reverence for life; Congo: a curse of riches; Waging peace: the rise of Pacifism ; Disc 5: War in the third dimension: aerial warfare in World War I; Blood red: the life and death of Manfred von Richthofen; Flying high for France: the Lafayette Escadrille; Anthony Fokker: the Flying Dutchman ; Disc 6: Karl: the last Habsburg emperor; The Russian Revolution: all power to the Soviets!; V.I. Lenin: history will not forgive us ; Disc 7: Impresario: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes; Ballet: the art of dance; Franz Kafka's dark truth ; Disc 8: Lines in the sand: the Middle East and the Great War; Colonel Lawrence's war: T.E. Lawrence and Arabia ; Disc 9: Interactive timeline; Historical lecture: war and revolution; Special delivery interactive game.
Created by George Lucas.
Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo, NTSC.
DVD-ROM minimum system requirements: Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP1) with a Pentium 4 or compatible CPU, 1 GB RAM, 150 MB available hard drive space, a video card with 64 MB RAM, 16 bit sound card and a DVD-ROM drive. Macintosh requirements: OS X Version 10.3.9+, G4, 1 GB RAM and 150 MB available hard drive space, Flash player V.9.
These DVDs are copy-protected.
English dialogue, English subtitles; closed-captioned.
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