Film

Apocalypse: The Battle of Verdun

7.120161h 30mDocumentary History

Director: Daniel Costelle
Year: 2016

A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December 1916, the French and German armies relentlessly fought in the devastated camps around the village of Verdun.

Top cast

Mathieu Kassovitz

Self - Narrator (voice)

Émile Driant

Self (archive footage)

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany

Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Joffre

Self (archive footage)

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Self (archive footage)

King George V of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Erich Ludendorff

Self (archive footage)

Jean Navarre

Self (archive footage)

Robert Nivelle

Self (archive footage)

Philippe Pétain

Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen

Self (archive footage)

Paul von Hindenburg

Self (archive footage)

Directed by

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Written by

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke