Channel 5 – World War I in Colour (2003) Part 1: Catastrophe
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.
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Part 1: Catastrophe
“Not a tree stands. Not a square foot of surface has escaped mutilation.There is nothing but the mud and the gaping shell holes; a chaotic wilderness of shell holes, rim overlapping rim, and, in the bottom of many, the bodies of the dead…” CAPTAIN ROWLAND FIELDING
WWI WAS ON A SCALE NEVER KNOWN OR IMAGINED BEFORE…
The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne by a Serb in Sarajevo, started a spiral into war which engulfed most of Europe, and then the world.
The Austrians invaded Serbia which led to tension between Germany and Russia, the two leaders of the Germanic and Slav empires. When Germany launched a pre-emptive attack on France the conflict escalated to include Britain and Russia. By the end of 1914, the stage was set for almost four years of bloody stalemate and trench warfare on the Western Front, and a sweeping and ultimately decisive war in the east.
This first episode, Catastrophe, looks at the fact that between 1914 and 1918, 65 million men took up arms. Ten million were killed and 20 million were emotionally and physically incapacitated. The war ushered in new terminologies, new and massive weapons and a scale of artillery barrages never before imagined.
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