BBC - The First World War (2003) Part 8 Revolution

Ten-part series based on the book by Hew Strachan, Professor of the History of War at Oxford which tells the story as never before, dispelling the myths and offering new and provocative answers to core questions about the war's causes, conduct and legacy. It features hundreds of eyewitness accounts from frontline soldiers, generals, statesmen, children and women from all sides in the conflict. The First World War shaped the twentieth century. It sparked the Russian Revolution and launched America as a world power. The fault-line from its failed peace settlement led to a second terrible world war barely twenty years later. We live with its unresolved consequences; in the Middle East, the Balkans and Ireland.

Part 8: Revolution

This episode examines how governments, worried about unrest at home, set about fomenting revolution among the enemy. Britain sponsored the Arab revolt through Lawrence of Arabia, while Germany backed Irish independence and helped Lenin get back to Russia in 1917.

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