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Winner of the Royal Television Society Documentary Award What was it really like to be a British Tommy fighting in the trenches of the First World War? How did it feel to face the wire, the machine guns, the artillery barrages, and the poison gas cloud? To see your friends and comrades dying all around you day after day? This award-winning factual series available for the very first time on DVD - draws on a unique collection of one hundred interviews with World War One veterans in which the soldiers and their loved ones relive all the heroism and heartbreak of the years from 1914 to 1918. Most of these men had never been interviewed before or since . It features the first ever interview with Harry Patch and the only ever interview with Henry Allingham, the two last surviving veterans of the war who died last year aged 111 and 113. All the voices are now silent. Powerful, moving and important, Last Voices Of The Great War provides the most in-depth and wide-ranging oral history of the British experience of the First World War ever recorded on film.. All six History Channel episodes are included.
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Very moving. Full of salutary reminders of the sacrifices made for the freedoms we enjoy today --Daily Mail
The Voices are being heard now only because of the foresight of film-maker Steve Humphries, whose company, Testimony Films, made the series, and historian Richard Van Emden, whose passion for hearing the first-hand testimonies of surviving veterans first persuaded Steve to record them. --Daily Record
The Voices are being heard now only because of the foresight of film-maker Steve Humphries, whose company, Testimony Films, made the series, and historian Richard Van Emden, whose passion for hearing the first-hand testimonies of surviving veterans first persuaded Steve to record them. --Daily Record
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
This is a tremendously important historical series, with the great war now out of living memory, the recordings of the veterans you will see on this series are all that is left to inform the younger generations of what it was like to fight in such a horrific war. It is a very good series, remember that when watching as it was several one hour episodes, unlike the previous reviewer who felt he had to "relieve the monotony of five hours of personal testimony". I would suggest that you watch an episode at a time. it is very watchable TV, even my wife with little interest in the period found it good watching. The re-enactments are accurate by living history groups and actors they are well filmed and put together and with the aural history from participants themselves tell an amazing story, that you can watch more than once.
I am sorry the previous reviewer felt the sacrifice of an entire generation of young men from this country and across the world was monotonous to watch, I am sure that he would rather spend five hours watching tele not of his liking than be in a frontline trench at Passendale for five minutes. However having watched the whole series probably 3 times at home and for military purposes when teaching, I would thoroughly recommend anyone with any interest in the the first world war period or the military to watch this DVD an epsidode at a time and listen to these truly remarkable men and women.
I am sorry the previous reviewer felt the sacrifice of an entire generation of young men from this country and across the world was monotonous to watch, I am sure that he would rather spend five hours watching tele not of his liking than be in a frontline trench at Passendale for five minutes. However having watched the whole series probably 3 times at home and for military purposes when teaching, I would thoroughly recommend anyone with any interest in the the first world war period or the military to watch this DVD an epsidode at a time and listen to these truly remarkable men and women.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent series that is comprised of interviews with people who had first hand experience of World War I. Combatants, children of combatants, civilians working on the home front this series has moving interviews with them all, most of whom were 90 years or older when the interviews were conducted. A terribly moving testament to bravery and stoicism I would consider it vital viewing for anyone looking to learn not only about The Great War, but about humanity.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I have just finished watching the first DVD of the two, and can say i've been extremely 'moved' by this presentation, I have a great interest in 'The Great War' as my Grandfather served, and fought on the first day of the Somme, he was lucky enough to be one of the few who returned alive, albeit with machine-gun bullet wounds in his leg. The whole event did have an effect on him, as you can imagine, and it would of been an understatement to say he was a shadow of his former self, as was the same for so many, if not all of the veterans who fought in the war. I thought i had seen the best interviews/documentaries to date, but this is really something else! listening to some of the veterans accounts, almost left me with tears in my eyes, so many today just have no idea what those pore boys had to go through, and will never truly understand. I certainly will never forget, for what my grandfather went through, as well as all the other soldiers who fought on both sides. Anybody who has a general interest in 'The Great War' should have this for their collection, its a master piece.
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