Query: World War 1 documentary films
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory
The Millionaires' Unit
Gallipoli (2005 film)
They Shall Not Grow Old
Lest We Forget (1935 film)
25 April (film)
Britain Prepared
Ypres (film)
The Great War (2007 film)
The Battle of the Somme (film)
Dealers in Death
War As It Really Is
The Yanks Are Coming (1963 film)
The Battle and Fall of Przemysl
14-18
The Somme (film)
Evidence from documents: The Somme – From Defeat to Victory: '''''The Somme – From Defeat to Victory''''' is a 2006 BBC documentary film made to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
The Millionaires' Unit: The documentary charts the romantic, little-known story of the origins of American airpower and features sequences filmed air-to-air with original WW1 planes.
Gallipoli (2005 film): World War 1: A thorough recounting of the carnage when Allied Forces attempted to take the Dardanelles Straits and the title peninsula in Turkey during WWI, ''Gallipoli'' serves up the paradoxes and idiocy of battle as expressed in letters and journals written by the men (on both sides) who were there...Clear, informative and frequently moving narration by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill ties together six years of research by vet documaker Tolga Ornek.
documentary films: It is a documentary about the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, narrated by both sides, the Turks on one side and the British soldiers and Anzacs (soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the other side.
They Shall Not Grow Old: documentary films: '''''They Shall Not Grow Old''''' is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson.
World War 1: The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum's archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of release.
Lest We Forget (1935 film): ''''Lest We Forget''''' (1935) was the first feature-length documentary film with sound to be made in Canada. Written, directed and edited by Frank Badgley, who was then the Director of the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, and W.W. Murray, with music by Edmund Sanborn and narrated by Rupert Caplan. A compilation, 10-reel film (using newsreel footage, graphics and staged sequences) recounting Canada’s role in the First World War, it is fast-paced and has a verbose narration but was well received by critics and audiences at the time. The Bureau was the precursor to the National Film Board of Canada.
In his 1974 history of the CGMPB published by the Canadian Film Institute, Charles Backhouse wrote that, "With enthusiasm the Bureau began the mammoth task of preparing its first major sound production, an epic 10-reel history of the Canadian armed forces in World War I.
25 April (film): Tom Peters and Sam Price of the World Socialist Web Site wrote that the documentary had some "moving portrayals" but criticized it for not opposing the First World War itself,
Britain Prepared: documentary films: (1915) is a British documentary feature film
World War 1: It was the first major British official film of World War I.
Ypres (film): documentary films: a 1925 feature-length documentary
World War 1 d: It was made up entirely of reconstructions of the various Battles of Ypres performed by members of the British Armed Forces.
The Great War (2007 film): '''''The Great War''''' is a CBC television film documenting Canadian participation in the First World War.
The Battle of the Somme (film): World War 1: ''The Battle of the Somme'' is significant as an early example of film propaganda, an historical record of the battle and as a popular source of footage illustrating the First World War.
documentary films: '''''The Battle of the Somme''''' (US title, ''Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme''), is a 1916 British documentary and propaganda war film, shot by two official cinematographers, Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell.
Dealers in Death: It implied that the First World War was fought for the benefit of arms dealers such as Basil Zaharoff
War As It Really Is: '''''War As It Really Is''''' is a 1916 American documentary war film shot, edited and distributed by Donald C. Thompson. The seven-reel film exposed American audiences to some of the most authentic sights and first-hand accounts of World War I before the United States entered the war. The film was first shown in installments at the Rialto Theatre in New York City in October 1916.
The Yanks Are Coming (1963 film): documentary films: a 1963 American documentary film
World War 1: the documentary, which is about American involvement in World War I.
The Battle and Fall of Przemysl: '''''The Battle and Fall of Przemysl''''' is a 1915 documentary war film shot on the Eastern Front by official war photographer to the Central Powers, Albert K. Dawson.
14-18: '''''14-18''''' (also known as '''''Over There, 1914-18''''') is a 1963 French documentary film about World War I
The Somme (film): '''''The Somme''''' is a 1927 British documentary film directed by M.A. Wetherell. It re-examined the 1916 Battle of the Somme during the First World War.
The film was made at Isleworth Studios using a docudrama format. It involved a number of the personnel who had previously worked on a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films released between 1921 and 1927. British Instructional Films had finished their series with ''The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands'', and Geoffrey Barkas moved to the newly established New Era films to carry on the cycle. When Barkas fell ill, Wetherell was brought in to take over the project. Although Wetherell received the directors credit, much of the film was made by Barkas and Boyd Cable.