The Great War La grande guerre [videorecording]
BBC Television ; in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- Special ed.
- Middlesex, England : DD Video, 2002.
- 1videodiscs (200 mins.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced for television broadcast in 1964. Special features include: Voices from the western front, a documentary of voice recordings of soldiers and airmen telling of their own experiences in their own words, illustrated by footage and stills from the Museum's archives (55 min.); The finished fighter, a silent training film by the U.S. War Dept. showing battle- hardened British soldiers teaching American soldiers (10 min.).
V. 1, epis. 1-5. "This business may last a long time" (200 min.) -- v. 2, epis. 6-10. "Please God, send us a victory" (200 min.) -- v. 3, epis. 11-14. "Hell can not be so terrible" (160 min.) -- v. 4, epis. 15-18. "We are betrayed, sold, lost" (160 min.) -- v. 5, epis. 19-22. "Only war, nothing but war" -- v. 6, epis. 23-26." ... and we were young" (160 min.) -- [v.7] Special features (65 min.).
Video version restricted to private home use or face-to- face teaching activities in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction at Union College. Other restrictions may also apply. Any other use without a license is in violation of copyright law.
Producers, Tony Essex, Gordon Watkins. Producers, Tony Essex, Gordon Watkins.
Narrator, Michael Redgrave.
An epic series on World War I drawing from over one million feet of original film, hundreds of exclusive veteran interviews and contemporary diaries, letters, and reports from the war.
DVD-video; PAL, Region 2.
1552598092 10.00
DD 4745 DD Video
World War, 1914-1918. Historical television programs.