The Road to War (The End of an Empire)
- Movies
- 2014-01-01
- EN
- Released
- 0h 52m
- AT
- Documentary - History - War
Production
ORF, BMBF, Austrian Television Fund, Vienna Film Financing Fund
Storyline
"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.
