The channel produced weekly content that follows the events that occurred one hundred years prior during the war.

[11] After the centennial's conclusion, Indy Neidell, the first host and writer of the series, left the project to present a new channel focussing on the Second World War.

Mediakraft Networks, the production company of The Great War, originally planned to launch as well German, Polish and Turkish language versions of the show.

The show got a big boost in viewership when the Battlefield 1 first-person shooter video game developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 21, 2016.

In early 2019, the channel started to produce longer in-depth episodes[16] under a new host, Jesse Alexander,[17] who replaced Neidell as he moved on to other projects such as World War Two.