The Great War
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. An inspired account of the world-shattering events of 1914-1918, The Great War is narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and employs the voice skills of many other leading actors of the day including Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring. 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 (by this time most were still only in their 60s), as well as almost 150 separate extracts from diaries, letters and reports from the war.
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Episodes
S01E01 · 1964-05-30
On the Idle Hill of Summer
S01E02 · 1964-06-06
For Such a Stupid Reason Too
S01E03 · 1964-06-13
We Must Hack Our Way Through
S01E04 · 1964-06-20
Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre
S01E05 · 1964-06-27
This Business May Last a Long Time
S01E06 · 1964-07-04
So Sleep Easy in Your Beds
S01E07 · 1964-07-11
We Await the Heavenly Manna
S01E08 · 1964-07-18
Why Don't You Come and Help?
S01E09 · 1964-07-25
Please God Send Us Victory
S01E10 · 1964-08-01
What Are Our Allies Doing?
S01E11 · 1964-08-08
Hell Cannot Be So Terrible
S01E12 · 1964-08-15
For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me
S01E13 · 1964-08-22
The Devil is Coming
S01E14 · 1964-08-29
All This It is Our Duty to Bear
S01E15 · 1964-09-05
We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost
S01E16 · 1964-09-13
Right is More Precious Than Peace
S01E17 · 1964-09-20
Surely We Have Perished
S01E18 · 1964-09-27
Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense
S01E19 · 1964-10-04
The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go
S01E20 · 1964-10-11
Only War, Nothing But War
S01E21 · 1964-10-18
It Was Like the End of the World
S01E22 · 1964-10-25
Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In?
S01E23 · 1964-11-01
When Must the End Be?
S01E24 · 1964-11-08
Allah Made Mesopotamia - and Added Flies
S01E25 · 1964-11-15
The Iron Thrones Are Falling
S01E26 · 1964-11-22
...And We Were Young
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