The BBC do a good job with drama-documentaries, and this is a contender for their best yet. I watched it on release in 2014 and, 6 years on, have just watched them all again.
Forget a sterile narration of the strategic direction of WW1, these three episodes look at real events from the war and the stories are on a much more personal level, showing the war as a dynamic, mobile affair rather than focusing on the stalemate of the trenches. This gives an insight into the sort of horrors our grandfather/great grandfather/great great grandfather etc might have experienced. Definitely not for children, as the language and violence is on the strong side.
The endings feature the real recorded voices of the people whose stories are told and I thought that was a genius touch.
The only negative I can find is that there are only 3 episodes.
Forget a sterile narration of the strategic direction of WW1, these three episodes look at real events from the war and the stories are on a much more personal level, showing the war as a dynamic, mobile affair rather than focusing on the stalemate of the trenches. This gives an insight into the sort of horrors our grandfather/great grandfather/great great grandfather etc might have experienced. Definitely not for children, as the language and violence is on the strong side.
The endings feature the real recorded voices of the people whose stories are told and I thought that was a genius touch.
The only negative I can find is that there are only 3 episodes.