World War I in Color

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This six-episode, historically-themed documentary miniseries from the English filmmaking team of Philip Nugus and Jonathan Martin (Hitler's Bodyguard) chronicles World War I (1914-18), a conflict with a death toll estimate of at least 10,000,000 soldiers. The project employs an unusual device in bringing the conflict to life: technicians have "colorized" the black-and-white archival footage of the 'Great War' to give the past a fresher feel. As narrated by Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), the series relays the events ...
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Overview

This six-episode, historically-themed documentary miniseries from the English filmmaking team of Philip Nugus and Jonathan Martin (Hitler's Bodyguard) chronicles World War I (1914-18), a conflict with a death toll estimate of at least 10,000,000 soldiers. The project employs an unusual device in bringing the conflict to life: technicians have "colorized" the black-and-white archival footage of the 'Great War' to give the past a fresher feel. As narrated by Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), the series relays the events of the war chronologically, its stock footage intercut with interviews featuring surviving World War I veterans, who discuss in vivid and often gruesome detail the horrors of living in the trenches and "going over the top" to fight. The series also makes full use of maps, diary excerpts, historical analysis, and much more. Bonus features include: a special entitled Tactics and Strategy, on the many ways in which new technology altered the landscape of war; a making-of featurette; biographies of key military leaders; a historical timeline; and a twelve-page viewer's guide.
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Special Features

Tactics & Strategy, a 50-minute special showing how new technology and bold thinking changed warfare; Making the series behind-the-scenes featurette (15 min); Biographies of political and military leaders, general facts, and a timeline of events; 12-page viewer's guide with historical background, including the global war, women at war, and revolutionary weaponry
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 7/13/2010
  • UPC: 054961828296

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  • Source: Athena
  • Region Code: 1
  • Presentation: Wide Screen
  • Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Language: English
  • Time: 4:44:00
  • Format: DVD

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- World War I in Color, Vol. 1
1. A Call To Arms [12:11]
2. The Spark [7:57]
3. Unstoppable Race to Disaster [11:28]
4. Battle Of Frontiers [3:37]
5. Eastern Front [4:48]
6. Battle Of Ypres [7:12]
1. Four Years Of Slaughter [9:37]
2. Crisis Of Supply [6:08]
3. Inferno At Verdun [7:07]
4. Britain's Worst Day [9:47]
5. French Army Mutinies [5:51]
6. Ypres And Passchendale [8:24]
1. Warfare In a New Dimension [4:44]
2. Spies In the Sky [8:24]
3. First Aces [11:36]
4. Wings Over the Ocean [9:53]
5. Landing On Ships [4:38]
6. Birth Of Strategic Bombing [7:38]
Disc #2 -- World War I in Color, Vol. 2
1. Leaps In Technology [6:25]
2. The Lone Hunters [11:14]
3. Sinking Of Lusitania [14:26]
4. Gallipoli [5:42]
5. Battle Of Jutland [3:58]
6. U-Boats and American Isolation [5:04]
1. A Different Sort of War [9:48]
2. Germany Invades Poland [4:56]
3. Italy Joins the Allies [3:59]
4. The Tsar Abdicates [5:46]
5. Bolsheviks Sieze Power [8:47]
6. America Enters the War [13:21]
1. 1918 [3:10]
2. Stormtroopers Great Assault [8:36]
3. Allies Strike Back [6:18]
4. Yanks Go Over the Top [9:27]
5. Kaiser Abdicates [9:00]
6. Treaty Of Versailles [11:08]
Disc #3 -- World War I in Color, Vol. 3: Bonus
1. An Overview [6:58]
2. The Last German Offensive [5:31]
3. The Tank Cometh [13:35]
4. Death From Above [8:26]
5. Death From Below [2:59]
6. Raid On Zeebrugge [13:38]
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Menu

Disc #1 -- World War I in Color, Vol. 1
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   Subtitles
      English Subtitles: On
      English Subtitles: Off
   Catastrophe
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   Slaughter In the Trenches
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   Blood In The Air
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Disc #2 -- World War I in Color, Vol. 2
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   Subtitles
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   Killers Of the Sea
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   Mayhem On the Eastern Front
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   Victory and Despair
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Disc #3 -- World War I in Color, Vol. 3: Bonus
   Making The Series
   Tactics and Strategy
      Play
   Biographies
      Alexei Brusilov
      Winston Churchill
      Georges Clemenceau
      Erich Von Falkenhayn
      Ferdinand Foch
      Douglas Haig
      Paul Von Hindenburg
      John Jellicoe
      Joseph Joffre
      Horatio Kitchener
      David Lloyd George
      Erich Von Ludendorff
      Tsar Nicholas II
      Robert Nivelle
      John Joseph Pershing
      Henri-Philippe Pétain
      Hugh Trenchard
      Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
      Kaiser Wilhelm II
      Woodrow Wilson
   Timeline Of Events
   General Facts
   Subtitles
      English Subtitles: On
      English Subtitles: Off
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