Synopsis
For 26 weeks it ran in grainy black & white and was a sensation. For half a year, pubs thinned out for Wednesday evening. With the rounded tones of Sir Michael Redgrave and Sir Ralph Richardson as the narrators, and previously unseen archival footage, The Great War was a television phenomenon. Then overnight it disappeared. For decades, military historians prodded the corporation and its co-producer, the Imperial War Museum, to release the tapes. Until now, nearly 40 years on (April 2009), a series of video tapes in a joint venture between the BBC and Britain's leading military video company, DD Video. And what a series. Despite the distortions of time and memory, the programmes live up to their reputation.
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Details
- Running time
- 39 minutes
- Collection
- 1960s Classic TV, Classic TV