It wiped out ten million people, heralded the birth of modern warfare and engendered mass destruction on a scale never before known in human history. Dubbed “the war to end all wars”, it was directly responsible for the outbreak of fresh international conflict barely twenty years later. Yet, in terms of intelligent contemporary examination, World War I is constantly placed second behind World War II. As the last veterans pass away and in time for the for the First World War Centenary, join Entertainment One for “The First World War: The Complete Series,” a powerful, acclaimed ten-part series based on the book by renowned WWI historian Hew Strachan and narrated by award-winning filmmaker and author Jonathan Lewis. Offering a stunning account of the war, as well as new insights into one of the defining events of modern history, this series explores many of the little-known campaigns and battles as well as the Western Front.
“Highly recommended.
An immensely entertaining and engrossing series”
— DVD Talk
AS SEEN ON THE MILITARY CHANNEL
THE DEFINITIVE WWI DOCUMENTARY, THIS
ACCLAIMED TEN-PART PROGRAM BASED ON THE BOOK BY HISTORIAN HEW STRACHAN, HAS BEEN NEWLY REPACKAGED IN TIME TO COMMEMORATE THE
FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY
THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE COMPLETE SERIES
Street Date: May 20, 2014
DVD srp: $34.98 (3 Discs)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
It wiped out ten million people, heralded the birth of modern warfare and engendered mass destruction on a scale never before known in human history. Dubbed “the war to end all wars”, it was directly responsible for the outbreak of fresh international conflict barely twenty years later. Yet, in terms of intelligent contemporary examination, World War I is constantly placed second behind World War II.
As the last veterans pass away and in time for the for the First World War Centenary, join Entertainment One for THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE COMPLETE SERIES, a powerful, acclaimed ten-part series based on the book by renowned WWI historian Hew Strachan and narrated by award-winning filmmaker and author Jonathan Lewis. Offering a stunning account of the war, as well as new insights into one of the defining events of modern history, this series explores many of the little-known campaigns and battles as well as the Western Front. Combining previously unseen film from newly accessible archives in Central and Eastern Europe with new film of the battlefields across the world as they are today, THE FIRST WORLD WAR presents, for the first time ever, a truly global vision of the conflict.
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD
Catalog #: EOE-DV-7477
Running Time: 500 minutes/3 discs
Genre: War/Documentary
Rated: Not rated
Aspect Ratio: 16 x 9 (1.78:1)
Audio: 2.0 Dolby Digital
Language: English w/SDH Subtitles
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