Inspired by Margaret MacMillan's landmark book hailed by The New York Times as a 'blueprint of the political and social upheavals bedevilling the planet now', Paris 1919 takes us inside this singular event with a vivid sense of character and narrative.
Part archive footage, part dramatization, this film centres around the Treaty of Versailles that ultimately brought to an end the First World War. For six months in 1919, Paris was the capital of the world. The last shots had just been fired in the most devastating war of all time and the old global order lay in tatters. Delegations from over 30 nations urgently descended upon Paris for the most ambitious peace talks in history. They endeavoured to engineer a peace treaty 'for all time' creating instead an embittered Germany already dreaming of retaliation and contentious new entities like Iraq and Yugoslavia.