
How The Americans Entered World War One
This entry in the Great War in Numbers series tracks the United States' late but decisive intervention in the First World War, using statistics and archival footage to measure exactly what the American Expeditionary Force added to a war of attrition already four years old. It follows the numbers behind the 1918 Allied counter-offensive that finally broke the German lines, from troop shipments crossing the Atlantic to the manpower gap the Americans filled just as German reserves ran out. The film does not shy from the war's cruelest statistic: 11,000 men were killed or wounded on November 11, 1918, Armistice Day itself, some in fighting that continued after the ceasefire had already been signed. Narration and data visualizations carry the analysis rather than personal testimony, treating the war's final year as a set of figures worth interrogating on their own terms. It closes on the paradox of a war that ended exactly on schedule and still cost thousands of lives in its last hours.