| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 9 hours, 57 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.) |
| Note |
"A Major channel four series."--Container |
| System Details |
DVD, PAL format, region 2, 16x9 widescreen, digital stereo. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Credits |
Supervisory film editor, Chris Rodmell ; music, Orlando Gough. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 2003. |
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Based on the book by Professor Hew Strachan. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
Ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative. Places World War I in its proper global context, dispelling the conventional myth of the war as a European conflict only. The human tragedy is placed in a wider political and military context, going beyond the Western Front to encompas the entire world. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: To arms -- Under the eagle -- Global war -- Jihad -- disc 2: Shackled to a corpse -- Breaking the deadlock -- disc 3: Blockade -- Revolution -- disc 4: Germany's last gamble -- War without end. |
| Note |
Accompanied by viewing notes (32 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) |
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GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918.
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Documentary television programs.
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| Added Author |
Strachan, Hew.
First World War.
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Lewis, Jonathan (Producer)
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Image Entertainment (Firm)
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| Music No. |
DD 07325 DD Video |
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