World War I in Colour

TV Mini Series
2003
E
6h 12m

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Documentary using computer colorized footage from World War I to give the audience the feel of how it really looked back during the war.Documentary using computer colorized footage from World War I to give the audience the feel of how it really looked back during the war.Documentary using computer colorized footage from World War I to give the audience the feel of how it really looked back during the war.

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Kenneth Branagh

Narrator

Harry Patch

Self…

Hubert Williams

Self…

Arthur Barraclough

Self…

Arthur Halestrap

Self…

Gary Sheffield

Self - King's College London…

Peter Hart

Self - Historian…

Taff Gillingham

Self - Military Historian

Andrew Lambert

Self - King's College London

Norman Stone

Self - Author, The Eastern Front 1914-17…

Bill Stone

Self - H.M.S. Tiger…

Fred Bunday

Self - Royal Navy, 1900 - 2002

Malcolm Brown

Self - Historian, Imperial War Museum

Robert Powell

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Philip Sabin

Self - King's College London

Orlando Figes

Self - Author of 'A People's Tragedy'

Richard Woodman

Self - Naval Historian

Jack Davis

Self - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Born 1895

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There are numerous references to "England" in multiple episodes when in fact "Britain" is intended.

The countries in Great Britain comprise England, Wales, and Scotland, all of which participated in both World Wars and were affected by same. Northern Ireland is not explicitly mentioned but it did not become part of the United Kingdom until 1920.

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Great idea to reach authentic reality, overcoming technical limitations of the time. The only (subjective) beef: when my attention concentrated on the colour, I couldn't care less about the suffering, the corpses in a ditch, the blood. It just becomes a colorful landscape, which sorta negates the purpose. If I concentrated on the story, I completely forgot about the coloring they made (which killed their work) and wanted better story coverage (which is pretty sketchy). And - the 'accents'. If it had been all brit, whatever, I'd loved it. The 'accents' spoiled it beyond repair. Instead of a true story - another puppet theatre. I an profoundly sorry.