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They Shall Not Grow Old

Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there.

Employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there.

Driven by a personal interest in the conflict, Jackson sets out to explore the day-to-day experience of its combatants. Immersed for months in the BBC and Imperial War Museum archives, Jackson created narratives and strategies regarding how this story should be told. Using only the voices of those involved, the film explores the reality of war on the front line: their attitudes to the conflict, how they ate, rested and formed friendships in those moments between battles, as well as their hopes and dreams for the future. Each frame of the film has been hand-colourised by Jackson's team, the footage 3D-digitised, transformed with modern post-production techniques, enabling these soldiers to walk and talk among us.

Reaching into the mists of time, Jackson aims to give these men voices, investigate the hopes and fears of these veterans that survived and were able to tell their stories, and detail the humility and humanity of those who represented a generation forever changed by the destruction of a global war.

1 hour, 35 minutes

Last on

Mon 15 Nov 202101:35

Credits

RoleContributor
DirectorPeter Jackson
ProducerPeter Jackson
ProducerClare Olssen
EditorJabez Olssen
Production Company14-18 NOW

Broadcasts

  • Sun 11 Nov 201821:30
  • Sat 2 Feb 201921:00
  • Tue 19 Feb 201900:15
  • Sun 10 Nov 201922:10
  • Sun 10 Nov 201923:10
  • Sun 8 Nov 202022:45
  • Sun 8 Nov 202023:15
  • Mon 9 Nov 202000:00
  • Sun 14 Nov 202121:00
  • Mon 15 Nov 202101:35

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