The Road to War (The End of an Empire)
MovieTitle | The Road to War (The End of an Empire) |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2014 |
Genre | Documentary, History, War |
Director | Leo Bauer , Robert Gokl |
Production country | US |
Production companies | ORF, BMBF, Austrian Television Fund, Vienna Film Financing Fund |
Run time | 52 min. |
"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.