Channel 5 – World War I in Colour (2003) Part 4: Killers of the Sea
English | Documentary | Size: 999 MB
World War I in Colour is a Channel 5 documentary series made with the cooperation of the Imperial War Museum, featuring all aspects of the land, sea and air war covered in separate programmes. Up until now, World War 1 had always been seen as a war that happened in black & white, but that was not the reality.
It was the first war to see the development of the fighter plane, the introduction of poison gas, the inventions of the tank and the flame thrower and the wide use of machine guns and heavy artillery, which caused such mass destruction.
On July 28, 1914 First World War broke out. It was a war that would reap millions of victims, changing the map and fundamentally influence the political power factor. Several of the global world powers were involved in this military conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918.
On one side were Germany and Austria-Hungary (the Central Powers), and later Turkey and Bulgaria and on the other hand, France, Russia and Britain (the Triple Entente), together with Serbia, and later Japan, Italy, Romania and the 1917 United States and further a number of other countries.
Over 70 million people participated in the War harvested more than 15 million victims, making it one of history’s deadliest conflicts. The background was a series of events and increased military activity escalated tensions between the two major blocs of allies. The shots in Sarajevo June 28, 1914 is a single event that is strongly associated with the outbreak of WWI.
This documentary provides an historical overview and all materials are carefully processed and converted to color. Using rare archive footage from sources around the World, including Britain’s own Imperial War Museum, this 6 part series has been painstakingly colourised using the latest computer-aided technology to bring the first world war to colour, as experienced by those who fought and endured it.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this landmark series brings a unique perspective to the events of 1914-1918 which saw 65 million men take arms against one another and a world thrown into chaos.
3BM Television and Nugus/Martin Production for Five
Part 4: Killers of the Sea
“The Lusitania is a godsend to the British. It’s quite the most stupid thing the Germans could have done.” PROFESSOR ANDREW LAMBERT, KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON
THIS SEA WAR WAS ABOUT INNOVATION AND DAZZLING ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY
Naval rivalry between the empires of Britain and Germany had played a major factor in the build up to World War I. By August 1914 Germany and Britain were building massive and expensive warships – the dreadnoughts. Despite expectations, fear of losing their ships meant that both fleets stayed in port for the first two years, and when the great naval battle did come – at Jutland in 1916 – it was indecisive.
The British swiftly put a stranglehold on all German overseas trade, and gradually began to starve the country. Britain’s survival depended on keeping her trade routes open, and for this reason Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare on merchant shipping, using a new and as yet untried weapon – the submarine.
The early success of their U-boats was offset by the side effect of bringing the United States into the war against Germany, a move which ensured Germany’s ultimate defeat.
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