The Long Road to War
A scholarly documentary investigates how decades of European political tension turned one assassination into the First World War.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Mild
- serious
- investigative
- foreboding
- history study
- documentary night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film frames the assassination and outbreak of world war i as the culmination of tensions prepared over preceding decades.
Historians including Hew Strachan, Dominic Lieven, Annika Mombauer, and Georges Henri-Soutou appear as themselves in interview-based analysis.
The plot explicitly moves beyond the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to examine decades of preparation for conflict.
The documentary focuses on the international conditions that transformed an assassination into the First World War.
Films like The Long Road to War, and why
The Great War
historical documentary analysis of the political forces and long-term causes behind world war i
They Shall Not Grow Old
scholarly documentary treatment of world war i through expert testimony and archival historical context
Apocalypse: The Second World War
serious history documentary examining the origins, escalation, and consequences of a major armed conflict
Movie Details
- Director
- Miloš Škundrić
- Release Date
- 2018-10-17
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 (25)
Cast
- Hew Strachan
- Dominic Lieven
- Dušan T. Bataković
- Georges Henri-Soutou
- Lothar Hobelt
- Annika Mombauer
- John Rohl
- Stig Förster
- Jean-Paul Bled
- Alan Sked
Common questions
- What is The Long Road to War about?
- A scholarly documentary investigates how decades of European political tension turned one assassination into the First World War.
- What is The Long Road to War like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Long Road to War as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as dense.
- Is The Long Road to War violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Long Road to War as mild.
- Which films are like The Long Road to War?
- Films with a similar feel include The Great War, They Shall Not Grow Old, and Apocalypse: The Second World War.
- How long is The Long Road to War?
- The Long Road to War runs 117 minutes.
