WWI: The Last Tommies

This deeply moving series from award winning Testimony Films, made to mark the centenary of the end of WW1, draws on their unique archive of two hundred interviews with the last survivors from the battlefields and the home front, filmed over the past twenty five years.

Vivid and heart breaking stories are told by the last Tommies - filmed in their nineties and hundreds - recalling life and death in the main theatres of war like the Somme and Passchendaele.

These are combined with stories from the last surviving women and children of WWI who recount the important work they did and the devastating effects of the loss of loved ones. The story of the most catastrophic war in human history is seen and heard in an immersive way as emotional testimonies are combined with WWI footage drawn from Britain’s major archives - the Imperial War Museum, the British Film Institute and Pathe - all digitally restored into High Definition.

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