For King and Empire

For King & Empire Season 1

Add Show to Watchlist

A documentary series about the Canadian Army's participation in World War I.

Where to Watch For King and Empire • For King & Empire Season 1

TubiFree

6 Episodes

Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres - 1915
E1
Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres - 1915Fresh off the boat, Canada's amateur soldiers march straight to the most dangerous sector on the Western Front: the "bulge" in the Allied line around the Belgian city of Ypres. Germany launches the first mass poison gas attack in history.
Slaughter and Sacrifice: The Canadians on the Somme - 1916
E2
Slaughter and Sacrifice: The Canadians on the Somme - 1916On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 60,000 British soldiers fall before Canadian troops are ordered in. Tanks are used in battle for the first time.
Storming the Ridge: The Canadians at Vimy - 1917
E3
Storming the Ridge: The Canadians at Vimy - 1917On Easter Monday, Canadians sweep to victory in a brilliantly planned attack on Germany's formidable fortress on Vimy Ridge. Their reputation as elite troops is confirmed, but at the cost of 21,000 dead, wounded and missing.
Slaughter in the Mud: The Canadians at Passchendaele - 1917
E4
Slaughter in the Mud: The Canadians at Passchendaele - 1917n midsummer, British commander Sir Douglas Haig launches a disastrous three-month offensive from the city of Ypres, resulting in a quarter of a million of his soldiers killed, wounded, or drowned in mud. To turn a failure into a "great victory," he orders the Canadians to take the ridge and village of Passchendaele.
Masters of War: Canadians in the Last 100 Days - 1918
E5
Masters of War: Canadians in the Last 100 Days - 1918A great German offensive in France and Belgium In the spring of 1918 puts an Allied victory at risk. In August, the Allies strike back, spearheaded by the Canadian Corps, which wins seemingly impossible victories at Arras, the Canal du Nord, and Cambrai, driving the Germans out of France over a period of 100 days.
Shadows of the Great War
E6
Shadows of the Great WarIn the 1920s along the old Western Front, men turn to the gruesome task of exhuming and reburying hundreds of thousands of bodies. While Canadians argue over the cost of memorials to their soldiers, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis plunge the world back into war. Many of the men who fought the First World War live to see their sons die in the Second.