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''The Great War'' is a 2017 American documentary film directed by
Stephen Ives Stephen Ives is an American documentary film director and original founder of Insignia Films. Among his productions are '' The West'' (1996), '' Reporting America at War'' (2003), '' Roads to Memphis'' (2010), and ''Grand Coulee Dam'' (2012), an ...
, Amanda Pollak and Rob Rapley. It is based on
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
(1914–18) and focuses especially on the United States' 20-month experience (April 1917 – November 1918) of deploying to the European theater. The film premiered to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the United States entry into the war on April 6, 1917. The three-part film aired on the
PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...
network series ''
American Experience ''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American his ...
'' during April 10–12, 2017.


See also

* ''World War One'' -
CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
production (1964–65) * ''The Great War'' - BBC,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...
, and
Imperial War Museums Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...
co-production (1964) * ''
The World at War ''The World at War'' is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War. It was produced in 1973, at a cost of £900,000 (), the most expensive factual series ever produced. It was produ ...
'' -
Thames Television Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992. Thames Television broa ...
production (1973) * '' The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century'' - BBC and KCET co-production (1996)


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