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Sarajevo 1914: The Assassination That Sparked World War One I SLICE History | Full Documentary

Jan 9, 2026 | The Road to War uses elaborate re-enactments, fascinating computer-generated imagery and previously unseen archive footage to examine how the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 came about and how Austria-Hungary used the death of the heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, to start a war against Serbia.

The film investigates how this regional conflict caused the central powers and the Triple Entente to enter the First World War - at the time, the biggest war in history, with 17 million soldiers and civilians killed and more than 20 million injured.

Documentary: The Road to War
Production: Metafilm for ORF (2014)
Directed by Robert Gokl