The Wars and Crises Leading to World War I (Full Documentary)

Support us and get 40% off Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end?ref=the-great-war In the late 19th and early 20th century the great European powers were entangled in a series of escalating crises and wars. Each successive crisis brought the world one step closer to the outbreak of the First World War. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro and Fashoda Crisis 03:43 2nd Boer War 1899-1900 30:34 Serbia 1903 32:27 Russo-Japanese War 1904/05 01:00:14 1st Moroccan Crisis 1905 01:02:03 Pig War 1906 01:03:55 Bosnian Crisis 1908 01:06:43 2nd Moroccan Crisis 1911 01:09:20 Italo-Turkish War 1911/12 01:37:57 First Balkan War 1912/13 02:01:46 Second Balkan War 1913 02:10:45 Albanian Crisis 1912/13 02:13:31 July Crisis 1914 » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realtimehistory Nebula: https://nebula.tv/the-great-war » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Rose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/moroccan-crises-1905-1911/ https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prochaska-affair-1-2/ Barraclough, Geoffrey: From Agadir to Armageddon. Anatomy of a Crisis. 1982. Bataković, Dusan: The Serbs of Bosnia & Herzegovina: History and Politics. 1996 Brooke-Smith, Robin: The Scramble for Africa. 1987. Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers. Penguin, 2012. Glenny, Misha: The Balkans 1804-1999. Nationalism, War and the Great Powers. 1999. Gurakuq, Romeo: Albania 1911-1914. 2012. Kniazheva, Ekaterina: May Coup in Serbia in 1903 and its coverage by the French press. 2017. Langer, William: 1908. Prelude to the World War. 1929. Lewis, David: The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa. 1987. Murakami, Ryo: Rethinking the “Pig War” (1906-1911) Seeking the Origins of the First World War. 2023 Skendi, Stavro: The Albanian National Awakening. 2015. Smith, Hillas: The Unknown Frenchman: The story of Marchand and Fashoda. 2001. Turbic, Ernes: 1908. The Annexation of Bosnia in the Serbian Press. 2024. Vaïsse, M. (2004). L'Entente cordiale de Fachoda à la Grande Guerre: dans les archives du Quai d'Orsay (in French). Brussels: Éditions Complexe Vandervort, Bruce: Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914. 1998. » OUR SISTER CHANNEL https://youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander, Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig, Jesse Alexander Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2025