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Cause and Effect: the unexpected origins of terrible things

Adam Westbrook · UK · Documentary / War · 7 min · 51K views

A video essay traces the causes of the First World War backwards through time, arriving at a surprisingly harmless origin.

A clever backwards history lesson that makes you rethink how catastrophes begin.

100 summers ago the countries of Europe collapsed quickly into war: it was sudden but also strangely inevitable.

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