The Great War (documentary)
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The Great War is a 26 episode BBC documentary series from 1964 on World War I. It is narrated by Michael Redgrave. Each episode is approximately 40 minutes long.
[edit] Episode listing
The episode titles are taken from quotes, the origins of which are shown in brackets.
- "on the idle hill of summer..." (A. E. Housman)
- "for such a stupid reason too..." (Queen Mary)
- "we must hack our way through" (Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg)
- "our hats we doff to General Joffre" (1914 jingle)
- "this business may last a long time" (Rudolf Binding)
- "so sleep easy in your beds" (Admiral Fisher)
- "we await the heavenly manna..." (Russian General)
- "why don't you come and help!" (Lloyd George)
- "please God send us a victory..." (soldiers prayer)
- "what are our Allies doing ?" (Russian General)
- "hell cannot be so terrible" (a French soldier)
- "for Gawd's sake don't send me" (1916 song)
- "the Devil is coming..." (German soldier)
- "all this it is our duty to bear" (Lord Lansdowne)
- "we are betrayed, sold, lost" (French soldier)
- "right is more precious than peace" (President Wilson)
- "surely we have perished" (Wilfred Owen)
- "fat Rodzianko has sent me some nonsense" (Czar Nicholas II)
- "the hell where youth and laughter go" (Siegfried Sassoon)
- "only war, nothing by war" (Clemenceau)
- "it was like the end of the world" (German soldier)
- "damn them, are they never coming in ?" (F. S. Oliver)
- "when must the end be ?" (Hindenburg)
- "Allah made Mesopotamia - and added flies" (Arabian proverb)
- "the iron thrones are falling" (British officer)
- "...and we were young" (A. E. Housman)
[edit] External links
- How the Great War Was Lost - and Found, First World War.com
- The Great War at the Internet Movie Database
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