The Great War (1964)

Genre

documentary film, documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 26-episode documentary series covers the First World War. It uses archive footage and readings to tell the story of the conflict.

educationalfactualseriousmeasuredhistoricalsombernarrator-drivenarchival

What happens

The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The narrator is Michael Redgrave, with readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw and Emlyn Williams. Each episode is c. 40 minutes long. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The World at War (1973)
• Horizon (1964)
• World War 1 in Colour (2003)
• World War II: From the Frontlines (2023)
• Battlefield (1994)
• BBC History of World War II
• The Century of Warfare (1993)
• World War II in Colour (2008)