The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries · SEASON 2
Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun
Episode 5 · 2007-12-18
- Documentary
Episode overview
They called Verdun the Meat Grinder. The Furnace. Hell. When the fighting died down, almost a year after it began, French and German armies were back where they started -- minus close to one million men. The Battle of Verdun came to symbolize the senseless slaughter of the First World War, but for the French, who won the war at enormous cost, it left a deeper and more personal mark. The soul of France was ripped out in the muddy trenches of Verdun.
30 minutes
Season 2 episodes
1. The Somme - A Storm of Steel2007-12-18
2. Siegfried Sassoon - A War Poet's Journey2007-12-18
3. Robert Graves and the White Goddess2007-12-18
4. I Am France - The Myth of Charles de Gaulle2007-12-18
5. Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun2007-12-18
6. Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace2007-12-18
7. Flirting with Danger - The Fantasy of Mata Hari2007-12-18
8. Reading the Enemy's Mind - Espionage in World War I2007-12-18
9. Chasing the Phantom - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck2007-12-18
10. Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous2007-12-18
11. At Home and Abroad - The Two Faces of Jan Smuts2007-12-18
12. Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life2007-12-18
13. Congo - A Curse of Riches2007-12-18
14. Waging Peace - The Rise of Pacifism2007-12-18
15. War in the Third Dimension - Aerial Warfare in World War I2007-12-18
16. Blood Red - The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen2007-12-18
17. Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille2007-12-18
18. Anthony Fokker - The Flying Dutchman2007-12-18
19. Karl - The Last Habsburg Emperor2007-12-18
20. The Russian Revolution - All Power to the Soviets!2007-12-18
21. V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us2007-12-18
22. Impresario - Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes2007-12-18
23. Ballet - The Art of Dance2007-12-18
24. Franz Kafka's Dark Truth2007-12-18
25. Lines in the Sand - The Middle East and the Great War2007-12-18
26. Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia2007-12-18
27. Historical Lecture: War and Revolution2007-12-18
