Channel 5 – World War I in Colour (2003) Part 6: Victory and Despair
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 6: Victory and Despair
“The First World War was certainly tragic, but it wasn’t futile. In the First World War the Allies achieved a great negative victory; they prevented the domination of Europe by militaristic Germany.” DR. GARY SHEFFIELD, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
THIS IS THE STORY OF 1918 – THE YEAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
1918 opened with Russia’s collapse meaning that Germany had a brief window of opportunity to win the war in the West before the strength of the new American armies made the Allies unbeatable. On the Western Front 2 million British and 3 million French were captured, wounded or killed – over a few miles of French and Belgian mud. In March 1918, the Allies hung on grimly during a massive German offensive. General von Ludendorff attacked along a 64-mile front which was to be the greatest attack yet seen in modern industrialized warfare. The Germans advanced 20 miles in 14 days, and von Ludendorff set his sights on Paris and victory. But then in July the Allies began a series of rolling offensives, led largely by the British and American armies. They pushed the exhausted Germans back, until defeat was inevitable. But tragically for the future, the Germans were able to agree an armistice while their armies were still on occupied territory. They marched home apparently unbeaten – and the myth of the ‘stab in the back’ by corrupt politicians was born. A myth which, when combined with the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, was to propel Adolf Hitler to power only fifteen years later…
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