A superb series, this for me is probably the definitive account of WWI. With an incredible 24 episodes, the scope and depth of what's covered here is extraordinary. There's enough time to examine the war industry for instance. The series does not try to pin the blame on any one government for the war starting but seems to accept it was some kind of chain reaction that had to follow the assassination. The series does not blame the generals either for the scale of the slaughter, graphic pictures are not shown, we do though get interviews with many of the former soldiers after all this was made only 50 years after the war had first begun. The series explores the new weapons, new tactics used, the deadlock at Gallipoli, the fighting on the eastern front, the French failures, the USA's political climate, the internal Russian power struggles, the dog fights in the sky, right up to 1918, the defeat of the U-boat campaign, the hunger in Germany and collapse of moral. The scope and scale of what this series packs in for me places it in one of the greatest documentaries of all time. This simply wouldn't get made today on this scale.