Apocalypse: The Battle of Verdun

A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 1916, the French and German armies relentlessly fought in the devastated camps around the village of Verdun.

Documentary History

Mathieu Kassovitz

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Émile Driant

(Self (archive footage))

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany

(Self (archive footage))

Hermann Göring

(Self (archive footage))

Joseph Joffre

(Self (archive footage))

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

(Self (archive footage))

King George V of the United Kingdom

(Self (archive footage))

Erich Ludendorff

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Navarre

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Nivelle

(Self (archive footage))

Philippe Pétain

(Self (archive footage))

Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen

(Self (archive footage))

Paul von Hindenburg

(Self (archive footage))