| Description |
2 videodiscs (approximately 3 hr., 41 min.) : sound, color, b&w ; 4 3/4 in |
| System Details |
DVD format; region 1, NTSC. |
| Performer |
Narrator, Nimmy March. |
| Credits |
Producer, Richard Van Emden ; director, Neil Rawles ; producer, director and editor, Nick Maddocks ; director of photography, Jason Shepherd. |
| Event |
Originally aired on the History Channel UK, 2008. |
| Audience |
TV 14. |
| Summary |
This six-part documentary series features interviews conducted over 15 years with British veterans of World War I. Includes news-reel footage, dramatic reconstructions, and interviews with Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, the two last surviving British veterans of the war and the then oldest men in the world at the respective ages of 111 and 113. |
| Awards |
Royal Television Society Documentary Award |
| Contents |
Disc 1: The call to arms ; The Battle of the Somme ; Saving the wounded -- Disc 2: Horror in the mud ; The home front -- The boys of 1918. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Veterans. (OCoLC)fst01165710
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Western Front (World War (1914-1918)) (OCoLC)fst01900003
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| Chronological Term |
1914 - 1918
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710387
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Documentary television programs.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Personal narratives -- British.
(OCoLC)fst01424087
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| Added Author |
Van Emden, Richard, film producer.
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Rawles, Neil, film director.
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Maddocks, Nick, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.
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March, Nimmy, narrator.
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Testimony Films, production company.
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History Channel (Great Britain)
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Mill Creek Entertainment, film distributor.
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| Added Title |
Last voices of World War I |
| Standard No. |
683904521590 |
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