Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Vienna Film Financing Fund, ORF, BMBF, Austrian Television Fund
The Road to War (The End of an Empire)
52 minHistory,
Documentary,
War
"The Road to War" uses elaborate and fascinating computer-generated recreations and archives never seen before to examine how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire to start a war against Serbia. The film investigates how this regional conflict involving the Central Powers and the Triple Entente escalated to become "World War I", a war with more than 17 million dead and More than 20 million injured.
DirectorsRobert GoklLeo Bauer
