The BEST episodes of The Great War (2014) season 5
Every episode of The Great War (2014) season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Great War (2014) season 5!
'The Great War' shows you the history of the First World War in the four years from 1914 to 1918, exactly 100 years ago. Our host Indy takes you back week by week and shows you what was going on in the past. Learn more about the Allies and the Central Powers, archdukes, emperors, Winston Churchill, Franz Ferdinand, Wilhelm II, soldiers, battles and of the life aside the battlefield.
#1 - Armistice - But Peace?
Season 5 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/11/2018
On November 11 1918, the German delegation and the Allies reach an agreement for an armistice. At the 11th hour the guns go silent and the First World War is over, well at least the guns go silent but is it a peace already? Germany is struggling with revolution and civil war at home, the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire causes a lot of chaos. And in Romania, the men are taking up arms again.
#2 - Austria-Hungary Deisintegrates - The Ottoman Empire Leaves the War I
Season 5 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/1/2018
The Ottoman Empire has been on the retreat in the Middle East since the renewed British offensive in September and now, as the allies are threatening the Turkish heartland and also Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire calls for an armistice. The Armistice of Mudros is signed as the remaining Central Powers also struggle to keep their Empires together.
#3 - The Battle of Belleau Wood Begins
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/7/2018
The German Army is still threatening Paris and the situation for the Allies looks dire. Reluctantly, General Pershing agrees to put some of the American troops into action at Belleau Wood and Château-Thierry.
#4 - Revolution in Germany - Armistice in Austria
Season 5 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/8/2018
Unrest within the German Empire is spreading, resentment against the war, the hunger and the elites is turning into revolutionary action and with a mutiny in Kiel the wheels begin to turn quickly. Austria signs an armistice, the Macedonian Front collapses, Romania might enter the war again and the new German political leaders send a delegation through the lines in France. Their goal: An Armistice.
#5 - The French Counter Attack At Matz
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/14/2018
The French have cracked the German radio code on the Western Front and use their advantage for a counterattack at Matz. The already hastily planed German attack during Operation Gneisenau is called off after just 4 days. Meanwhile Austria-Hungary plans another offensive in Italy and German and Ottoman forces fight each other in Georgia.
#6 - Second Battle of the Piave River
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/21/2018
Even though Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević von Bojna warns against, the Austro-Hungarian Army goes on the offensive in Italy again. In a two-pronged attack Borojevic and Conrad von Hötzendorf attack the Italian positions.
#7 - The Run For The Baku Oil Fields
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/28/2018
While the Ottoman Army of Islam is marching on Baku and the Caspian Sea, multiple other players are trying to stake their claim of the Baku oil fields.
#8 - The First Modern Battle - The Battle of Hamel
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/5/2018
The Battle of Hamel is considered as the first modern battle. Masterminded by Australian general John Monash, it included meticulous planning and integrated tanks, artillery, airplanes and infantry into one cohesive strategy.
#9 - The Gardeners Of Salonica Prepare A New Offensive
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/12/2018
The Macedonian Front has been quite since the recapture of Monastir except for some minor battles like at Skra. But the five nation Army of the Orient wants to change that and is readying a new offensive.
#10 - 2nd Battle Of The Marne - Turning Point On The Western Front
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/19/2018
The German Army launches an diversionary attack from the Rheims-Soisson salient and increases the pressure on Paris. But the Allies knew about the attack and for the first time, they effectively counter the German Stormtrooper tactics and even counter-attack along the line.
#11 - Ludendorff's Last Swing
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 7/26/2018
All of Germany's recent offensives have been building up to Operation Hagen: An offensive in Flanders that was to divide the Allies and drive the British off the continent. But this week German High Command realizes that they don't have the manpower left to even start the offensive.
#12 - Four Years of War
Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/2/2018
As the war turns 4 years old, there is still no end in sight. From the Western Front to the Caucasus and the Middle East; in every theater the war is still raging on.
#13 - The Black Day Of The German Army - The Battle of Amiens
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/9/2018
Ludendorff and his generals didn't think the Allies had it in them, but this week they attack with the might off several hundred tanks near Amiens, the Black Day of the German Army.
#14 - A Resounding Victory - German Morale Plummets
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 8/16/2018
As the Battle of Amiens is coming to an end, the Germans are desperately trying to stem the Allied advance and fortify new positions. But morale is crumbling and German High Command is running out of time to find a new strategy. Meanwhile in Russia, the struggle between Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries reaches a violent climax, as assassins prey on Lenin's life. The Dunsterforce finally arrives in Baku to help defend the city from the Ottoman advance. But this is not the mighty British force the inhabitants had hoped for. Will Lenin survive? Does Ludendorff choose to abandon all the gains the German army made over the spring? And what about the attack on the Wookies? Find out this and more in the new episode of The Great War.
#15 - Over By Christmas? - Growing Allied Confidence
Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/23/2018
With the recent "Black Day of the German Army" and the success of the new strategy of Allied attacks along the Western Front and with the renewed offensives in Palestine, British Commander Sir Douglas Haig is confident the war can be won by the end of the year. Entente Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch is a bit more cautious but also thinks the war can be won by 1919.
#16 - The American First Army Gears Up - Germany Retreats
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 8/30/2018
As the German Army withdraws along the Western Front, the Entente prepares for ever more offensives. This includes the newly founded American First Army which will have the task to attack the Germans in the Meuse-Argonnes area.
#17 - Red Terror in Soviet Russia
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/6/2018
After an almost successful attempt on Lenin's live, the Tscheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky responds with a terror campaign to consolidate Soviet power through fear. At the same time, a supposed Allied plot is unveiled that would get Russia back into the war.
#18 - The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 9/13/2018
The American First Army joins the fray on the Western Front with the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. All along the Western Front, the Allies are attacking or planning new attacks. The situation for the Germans looks dire even as the first war reparations from Russia arrive.
#19 - Allied Breakthroughs In Palestine And Macedonia
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/20/2018
In a turbulent week of the First World War, the Allies break through at the Macedonian Front during the Battle of Vadar and in Palestine during the Battle for Palestine. At the same time, the Ottoman defeats the last defenders of Baku.
#20 - The Meuse-Argonne Offensive - Bulgarian Collapse
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/27/2018
This week, the biggest American military operation in history kicks off with 1.2 million American soldiers trying to take the Krimhilde Stellung. At the same time the Army of the Orient advances into Bulgaria and the Ottoman 7th and 8th armies collapse in Palestine.
#21 - Germany's Reckoning - Bulgarian Armistice
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/4/2018
While Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonika and effectively exits the war as the first of the Central Powers, the Hindenburg Line is broken on the Western Front. It dawns among the German leadership, that an armistice is necessary and in a desperate attempt to secure a more favourable position at the negotiations table, the Kaiser agrees to a "revolution from the top" that gives more political saying to the Reichstag.
#22 - The Hindenburg Line Breaks - The Lost Battalion Returns
Season 5 - Episode 41 - Aired 10/11/2018
The Hindenburg Line or Siegfriedstellung is the backbone of the German defenses on the Western Front and this week 100 years ago, the Allies break through during the Battle of St. Quentin Canal. At the same time, the political fallout within Germany continues and the Allied Army of the Orient continues its offensive on the Macedonian Front.
#23 - The Battle of the Selle - Ludendorff Resigns
Season 5 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/18/2018
As the Germans are retreating further and further during the Battle of the Selle, Erich Ludendorff – the German Quartermaster General, one half of Germany's military dictatorship and mastermind behind the last big German offensive in spring 1918 – resigns under pressure by the Kaiser and the Reichstag. The German upper class realizes that their days might be numbered if the war continues in the current form and Austria-Hungary's Emperor Karl has the same epiphany.
#24 - Italy Attacks - The Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Season 5 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/25/2018
After the Battle of the Piave, the Italian front had been relatively quiet and stable. But just as unrest and instablity spread through the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Italian Army and its allies attack along the whole front. From Monte Grappa and across the Piave, the Austro-Hungarians are caught off guard.
#25 - Allied Unified Command On The Horizon
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/2018
While Germany is occupying a territory from the Baltics to the Black Sea and planning it's huge spring offensive, the Allies are still trying to get behind the idea of a unified command.