"The Great War" is a four-hour cinematic documentary covering U.S. involvement in World War I in the critical year of 1918. After three years of horrific battle in the trenches of France and Belgium, the Allies are on the verge of collapse.
After four years of unimaginable horror on the battlefield, the Allies are exhausted and in danger of losing to Germany. General John J. Pershing races to train and deploy the untested American Army before democracy collapses in Europe.