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WWI - The Final Hours

WWI – The Final Hours

WWI – The Final Hours: On 8 November 1918, an Englishman, a Frenchman and a German gathered in secret, on a train carriage in a forest near Paris. Their meeting would last for three days. Its aim: bring peace to Europe, and an end to four long years of brutal and deadly war.     One hundred years after the end of the First World War, this documentary uncovers the extraordinary events leading up to the Armistice negotiations, and the repercussions that would ripple across the continent, and throughout the 20th century – sometimes with catastrophic consequences.   WWI – […]

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They Shall Not Grow Old

They Shall Not Grow Old

They Shall Not Grow Old – Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there, employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old.     Alternative video stream   For Fullscreen   They Shall Not Grow Old Driven by a personal interest in the conflict, Jackson sets out to explore the day-to-day experience of its combatants. Immersed for months in the BBC and Imperial War Museum archives, Jackson created narratives and strategies regarding how this story should be told. Using

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