World War 1 : The Great War [Complete BBC Series]
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THE GREAT WAR is one of the most ambitious and prestigious series ever produced by the BBC. Drawing on over one million feet of film, hundreds of exclusive interviews and contemporary diaries and letters, this documentary masterpiece is by far the most comprehensive film history of World War One ever made.

A truly epic production lasting over seventeen hours, it was surely the inspiration for A WORLD AT WAR, which it closely resembles.

Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and featuring the voices of many other leading actors of the day including Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring, this magnificent series is now available on DVD on six discs containing all 26 episodes, complete and uncut.

This special boxed set includes a seventh bonus disc featuring rare film and audio material from the vaults of the Imperial War Museum, as well as a lavishly-illustrated 64 page guidebook to the series.

The episode titles are taken from quotes, the origins of which are shown in brackets.

   1. "on the idle hill of summer..." (A. E. Housman)
   2. "for such a stupid reason too..." (Queen Mary)
   3. "we must hack our way through" (Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg)
   4. "our hats we doff to General Joffre" (1914 jingle)
   5. "this business may last a long time" (Rudolf Binding)
   6. "so sleep easy in your beds" (Admiral Fisher)
   7. "we await the heavenly manna..." (Russian General)
   8. "why don't you come and help!" (Lloyd George)
   9. "please God send us a victory..." (soldiers prayer)
  10. "what are our Allies doing ?" (Russian General)
  11. "hell cannot be so terrible" (a French soldier)
  12. "for Gawd's sake don't send me" (1916 song)
  13. "the Devil is coming..." (German soldier)
  14. "all this it is our duty to bear" (Lord Lansdowne)
  15. "we are betrayed, sold, lost" (French soldier)
  16. "right is more precious than peace" (President Wilson)
  17. "surely we have perished" (Wilfred Owen)
  18. "fat Rodzianko has sent me some nonsense" (Czar Nicholas II)
  19. "the hell where youth and laughter go" (Siegfried Sassoon)
  20. "only war, nothing but war" (Clemenceau)
  21. "it was like the end of the world" (German soldier)
  22. "damn them, are they never coming in ?" (F. S. Oliver)
  23. "when must the end be ?" (Hindenburg)
  24. "Allah made Mesopotamia - and added flies" (Arabian proverb)
  25. "the iron thrones are falling" (British officer)
  26. "...and we were young" (A. E. Housman)

Two "Extra" episodes exist (only on the dual layer DVD edition):

   1. Voices from the Western Front
   2. The Finished Fighter

The series, unparalleled at the time for its depth of research, range of source material and historical accuracy - all presented in a sequence of clear narratives - is now considered one of the finest achievements of BBC documentary. Many of the interviewed participants in the First World War were still relatively young - in their late sixties or early seventies - and their memories are still fresh, vivid and disconcertingly frank, giving the series an honesty and a sense of charting still recent history. For that and many other reasons, it remains arguably the definitive television account of the First World War.
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