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More exciting than a political thriller, more tense than an action movie, this historic documentary, through authentic stories from the past, helps us understand why the First World War began. The question of who and why started this conflict is one of the main political and historical issues even 100 years after the war ended. Using film archives of Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, Germany and Serbia, reviving photographs and portraits of the most important historical figures with the help of 3D technology, animating old historical maps, masterfully building tension through conversations with the most important European historians, the film "The Long Road to War" creates the impression that from minute to minute we are presented with a walk of the whole world towards a global catastrophe.

For the past 100 years, this has been the first documentary film, in which the world‘s greatest historians track the causes of the First World War all the way back to it‘s origins.