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All Episodes of Small Hands in a Big War

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All Episodes of Small Hands in a Big War

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...
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Season 1

  • The Attack
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    The Attack

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/27/2014

    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 disillusionment with modern warfare.

    Director: Anna van der Heide, Nicole van Kilsdonk

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Escape
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    The Escape

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/4/2014

    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 electrified security fence at the Belgian border.

    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Pain
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    The Pain

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/11/2014

    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 own in secret and manages to save him.

    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Lie
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    The Lie

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/18/2014

    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 high mountains and even an avalanche.

    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Mountain
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    The Mountain

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2014

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    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Odyssey
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    The Odyssey

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/1/2014

    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 stowaway. The captain wants to catch him.

    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Revolution
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    The Revolution

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/8/2014

    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 Eastern Front.

    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Punishment
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    The Punishment

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2014

    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 her as a labourer.

    Director: Matthias Zirzow

    Writer: Unknown