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Small Hands in a Big War

20141 Season

Documentary, Drama

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Genre: Documentary
Origin: DE

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Small Hands In A Big War is the first docudrama bringing WWI to a young audience. In each episode we visit a different child, in a different country. We experience what the war was like for him or her related with one big topic: propaganda, revolution, honour etc.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 27, 2014
Network: SRF 1, ARTE, ARTE

Time to finish

6 hrs

8 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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SERIES

Small Hands in a Big War

20141 Season

Documentary, Drama

Your rating

Genre: Documentary
Origin: DE

About

Small Hands In A Big War is the first docudrama bringing WWI to a young audience. In each episode we visit a different child, in a different country. We experience what the war was like for him or her related with one big topic: propaganda, revolution, honour etc.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Apr 27, 2014
The Attack
An underage French schoolboy is full of patriotic enthusiasm at the start of the war. Against the will of his parents he signs up. His romantic dreams of honour soon give way to disillusionment with modern warfare.
E2 · Airs May 4, 2014
The Escape
A poor Flemish girl is caught stealing. The German occupying forces punish her severely: four months in prison or an impossibly large fine. She flees in secret and passes an electrified security fence at the Belgian border.
E3 · Airs May 11, 2014
The Pain
A German girl helps her older sister, who is taking care of wounded soldiers. When the senior doctor refuses to treat a poison-gas victim, she decides to help the soldier on her own in secret and manages to save him.
E4 · Airs May 18, 2014
The Lie
A shepherd from South Tyrol is forced to guide Italian soldiers, who are attacking his homeland, through the Alps. With talent, luck and teamwork they survive the dangers of the high mountains and even an avalanche.
E5 · Airs May 25, 2014
The Mountain
E6 · Airs Jun 1, 2014
The Odyssey
A twelve-year old American girl flees with her parents from the war in Europe. They board a Dutch freighter which is to bring them to America. On board, the girl discovers a stowaway. The captain wants to catch him.
E7 · Airs Jun 8, 2014
The Revolution
A ten-year old boy loses his parents in the war. The only thing left to him is his belief in the power of Czarist Russia. He finds refuge in the Russian army and comes to the Eastern Front.
E8 · Airs Jun 15, 2014
The Punishment
After losing her husband in the Great War, a French mother finds she can no longer cope with the family farm. She only manages to do so when a German prisoner-of-war is assigned to her as a labourer.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 27, 2014
Network: SRF 1, ARTE, ARTE

Time to finish

6 hrs

8 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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