Small Hands in a Big War
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Small Hands in a Big War

2014
1 season
8 episodes
DocumentaryDrama

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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  • Ep 1

    1.The Attack

    27-04-2014

    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 di...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Escape

    04-05-2014

    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 electr...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Pain

    11-05-2014

    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 ow...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Lie

    18-05-2014

    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 hi...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Mountain

    25-05-2014
  • Ep 6

    6.The Odyssey

    01-06-2014

    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 stowaw...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Revolution

    08-06-2014

    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 Easte...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Punishment

    15-06-2014

    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...

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