World War I in Colour (2)

War Documentary hosted by Kenneth Branagh, published by Channel 5 in 2003 - English narration



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World War I in Colour is a Channel 5 documentary series made with the cooperation of the Imperial War Museum, featuring all aspects of the land, sea and air war covered in separate programmes. Up until now, World War 1 had always been seen as a war that happened in black & white, but that was not the reality.
It was the first war to see the development of the fighter plane, the introduction of poison gas, the inventions of the tank and the flame thrower and the wide use of machine guns and heavy artillery, which caused such mass destruction.
On July 28, 1914 First World War broke out. It was a war that would reap millions of victims, changing the map and fundamentally influence the political power factor. Several of the global world powers were involved in this military conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918.
On one side were Germany and Austria-Hungary (the Central Powers), and later Turkey and Bulgaria and on the other hand, France, Russia and Britain (the Triple Entente), together with Serbia, and later Japan, Italy, Romania and the 1917 United States and further a number of other countries.
Over 70 million people participated in the War harvested more than 15 million victims, making it one of history's deadliest conflicts. The background was a series of events and increased military activity escalated tensions between the two major blocs of allies. The shots in Sarajevo June 28, 1914 is a single event that is strongly associated with the outbreak of WWI.
This documentary provides an historical overview and all materials are carefully processed and converted to color. Using rare archive footage from sources around the World, including Britain's own Imperial War Museum, this 6 part series has been painstakingly colourised using the latest computer-aided technology to bring the first world war to colour, as experienced by those who fought and endured it.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this landmark series brings a unique perspective to the events of 1914-1918 which saw 65 million men take arms against one another and a world thrown into chaos.

3BM Television and Nugus/Martin Production for Five

7)  Tactics and Strategy
WWI saw the introduction of technical innovation and industrial weapons manufacture on an unprecedented scale. Poison gas, fighter aircraft, heavy bombers, railway guns and heavy duty mines all took their toll of millions of Europe's armies.
The invention and use of the tools of war: Machine Guns, Constant Artillery bombardment, Barbed Wire, Tanks, Aircraft, Submarines, Flamethrowers, Grenades, High Explosive... All came down to the suffering of individual soldiers, it becomes painfully obvious why World War One happened the way it did... The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 35 million.
As well as mechanical innovation, there was a gradual development of tactics and strategy which have been painstakingly researched and explained in this special programme using state of the art computer graphics in order to explain how the scientists and military commanders attempted to break the stalemate of the Western Front.
Shock troops, underground mining, strategic bombing and the introduction of the tank all played their part in revolutionising the form which the war took over 4 years, so that by 1918, a total transformation had taken place in fighting methodology. This programme shows how these great changes took place.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 2 500 Kbps
Video Resolution: 702x574
Display Aspect Ratio: 1.739
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 224 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 47 min 3 s - 51 min 15 s
Number Of Parts: 8
Part Size: 292 MB - 999 MB
Source: DVD
Encoded by: DocFreak08

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