
From February to December 1916, the French and Germans waged one of the First World War’s most devastating battles in order to take control of the hills around Verdun. This documentary looks back at this ibattle that was to become the bloodiest chapter of the First World War. Verdun, ils ne passeront pas (Verdun, they shall not pass) revisits France’s last victory over Germany. A battle that would become the symbol of nationalist folly and age-old hostility between two nations.