Channel 5 – World War I in Colour (2003) Part 2: Slaughter in the Trenches
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 2: Slaughter in the Trenches
“If any man tells you he went over the top and wasn’t scared, he’s a damn liar.” HARRY PATCH: DUKE OF CORNWALL’S LIGHT INFANTRY. BORN 1898
THESE YEARS WOULD PRODUCE A NEW AND DEADLY EXPRESSION – “GOING OVER THE TOP”
Invading German Army forces face the British and French allies in the trenches. The French halt the German advance at the Battle of the Marne, initiating four years of trench warfare. After the German failed offensive on the Western Front in autumn 1914, both sides were bogged down in an unbroken line of trenches from the borders of Switzerland to the coast of the North Sea.
For more than three years, the commanders on the Western Front tried to find ways of breaking the stalemate. By the beginning of 1918, the Front had only moved a few miles and millions had been killed.
However Russia had been knocked out of the war and the United States had come in on the Allied side. The Germans knew that if they couldn’t win the war in the West swiftly in the spring of 1918, they were doomed.
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