Small Hands in a Big War

Season 1

8 episodes · Apr 27, 2014

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  • S1E1

    The Attack

    Apr 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.

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  • S1E2

    The Escape

    May 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.

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  • S1E3

    The Pain

    May 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.

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  • S1E4

    The Lie

    May 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.

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  • S1E5

    The Mountain

    May 25, 2014
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  • S1E6

    The Odyssey

    Jun 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.

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  • S1E7

    The Revolution

    Jun 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.

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  • S1E8

    The Punishment

    Jun 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.

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