Newfoundland enters the First World War as a small dominion eager to prove itself, and this episode follows the Newfoundland Regiment to the Somme, where on July 1st, 1916, it advances at Beaumont-Hamel and is nearly wiped out within half an hour. The episode uses dramatizations filmed on the actual battlefield ground, walking the same trenches and open fields the soldiers crossed under German machine-gun fire, paired with historians explaining how a single morning's losses reshaped Newfoundland's national memory for a generation. Rather than treating the battle as a footnote to the larger Somme offensive, the film isolates it as a turning point in its own right, asking what a dominion that lost most of a regiment in minutes owed to the war afterward. The reenactments stay grounded in the terrain rather than spectacle, keeping the focus on decisions made in narrow trenches rather than the wider strategic picture.