Description: A LANDMARK PRODUCTION IN BRITISH TELEVISION HISTORY, UNSEEN FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS.
In the early 1960s the BBC embarked on one of their most important and ambitious series ever. It was to be the definitive history of the First World War, complete in twenty-six 40-minute episodes, plus two extra.
So successful were the BBC that they created one of the most highly acclaimed television documentary series ever - and an inspired account of the world-shattering events of 1914-1918 that remains totally unequalled to this day.
It was a co-production involving the resources of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The main narrator was Michael Redgrave, with additional readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw, and Emlyn Williams.
To tell its story, the series includes authentic archive footage and stunning photographic images gathered from 37 separate sources around the world. It also features interviews with many veterans of the war (most were still only in their 60s), as well as almost 150 separate extracts from diaries, letters & reports from the war.
The whole 28 episodes documentary film has been splitted in 112 parts.
The episode titles are taken from quotes, the origins of which are shown in brackets.
1."on the idle hill of summer..." (A. E. Housman)
2."for such a stupid reason too..." (Queen Mary)
3."we must hack our way through" (Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg)
4."our hats we doff to General Joffre" (1914 jingle)
5."this business may last a long time" (Rudolf Binding)
6."so sleep easy in your beds" (Admiral Fisher)
7."we await the heavenly manna..." (Russian General)
8."why don't you come and help!" (Lloyd George)
9."please God send us a victory..." (soldiers prayer)
10."what are our Allies doing ?" (Russian General)
11."hell cannot be so terrible" (a French soldier)
12."for Gawd's sake don't send me" (1916 song)
13."the Devil is coming..." (German soldier)
14."all this it is our duty to bear" (Lord Lansdowne)
15."we are betrayed, sold, lost" (French soldier)
16."right is more precious than peace" (President Wilson)
17."surely we have perished" (Wilfred Owen)
18."fat Rodzianko has sent me some nonsense" (Czar Nicholas II)
19."the hell where youth and laughter go" (Siegfried Sassoon)
20."only war, nothing by war" (Clemenceau)
21."it was like the end of the world" (German soldier)
22."damn them, are they never coming in ?" (F. S. Oliver)
23."when must the end be ?" (Hindenburg)
24."Allah made Mesopotamia - and added flies" (Arabian proverb)
25."the iron thrones are falling" (British officer)
26."...and we were young" (A. E. Housman)
"Extra" episodes:
27.Voices from the Western Front
28.The Finished Fighter
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