First of all the good things.
1) Narrator is good, both in English and in French (which, I think is his native).
2) Surely, worked a lot with the archives. I have seen some footage which I had seen nowhere else.
Now what breaks it : This is not a documentary. It's a French propaganda film. The makers of this video series have made no effort to be impartial. For example in episode 2, when they mentioned the African troops, they blamed Germany for uprooting Africans for their imperial war purposes (when all Germany had in Africa was not much more than a "sausage factory in Tanganyika"). But they "uprooted Africans to fight for the war of their barbaric agression". And the French colonial troops? (France conscripted hundreds of thousands of Africans). They were there voluntarily because of respect for the uniform and good salaries. (!) (if you buy that) Also, in line with the official French view, not only there was much talk of an Armenian Genocide (in exaggeration of even the Armenian claims), and of course, no mention of massacres by Armenian bands on Turkish villages, of course.
Overall, I think, for the sake of inserting French political opinion on history, this video has missed the chance of being a very good documentary.
1) Narrator is good, both in English and in French (which, I think is his native).
2) Surely, worked a lot with the archives. I have seen some footage which I had seen nowhere else.
Now what breaks it : This is not a documentary. It's a French propaganda film. The makers of this video series have made no effort to be impartial. For example in episode 2, when they mentioned the African troops, they blamed Germany for uprooting Africans for their imperial war purposes (when all Germany had in Africa was not much more than a "sausage factory in Tanganyika"). But they "uprooted Africans to fight for the war of their barbaric agression". And the French colonial troops? (France conscripted hundreds of thousands of Africans). They were there voluntarily because of respect for the uniform and good salaries. (!) (if you buy that) Also, in line with the official French view, not only there was much talk of an Armenian Genocide (in exaggeration of even the Armenian claims), and of course, no mention of massacres by Armenian bands on Turkish villages, of course.
Overall, I think, for the sake of inserting French political opinion on history, this video has missed the chance of being a very good documentary.