The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Season 1, Episode 14: Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 1914

Episode synopsis

Between August 1914 and November 1918, 27 countries would declare war. Over 60 million men from around the world would fight and over eight-and-a-half million would die. In the summer of 1914, none of the world's leaders set out to wage the most destructive war the world had yet known, and yet they did. Why?

About The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries

A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
• E2Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
• E3Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
• E4From Slavery to Freedom
• E5Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
• E6Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
• E7American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
• E8Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
• E9Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
• E10Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
• E11Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
• E12It's Opera!