RESOURCES FOR VIDEO - WW1

Hi Guys! Here is a list of resources of Media, podcasts and Mp4's that might be useful to include in the video!  They are about the WW1: "The Great War" Vs. It's realities, i took them from the module i list last term in Media, Memory and Conflict! They all have their links!
I chose the ones that I thought might be the most useful!

European Film Gateway 1914 project - links to major archival film collections across the continent
Europeana 1914-1918 - untold stories & official histories of WW1.
Guardian Witness First World War project - images and memories uploaded by readers.
RTE Great War Archive - explores the 'recovery' of Irish First World War memories
A treasury of war poetry Useful to see the different rethorics of the war. The first wave was marked by nationalist sentiments but the second one was marked by 
Walter Koessler project - a German officer's photograph album from the war
World War One resources at the British Library covering many European dimensions of the conflict

All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930).









Birdsong (BBC, 2012) episodes One and Two on BoBNational.

Britain’s Forgotten Army (Channel 4, 12 November 2017, 19:00) - documentary about the role of Chinese labour battalions in the First World War.

The Crimson Field - drama about nurses (VADs) on the Western Front (playlist for all six episodes. 


Hedd Wyn, playlist of tv and radio programmes relating to the poet (in both Welsh and English).

Home Front (BBC Radio 4) - podcast archive for radio drama series set in Folkstone during WW1.

 Episodes for 12-16 September 2016 explore the impact of the screening of the Battle of the Somme (1916)P
I Don't Remember the War (BBC World Service, 27 July 2014, 20:06
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971) on Daily Motion

Life and Nothing But (French: La vie et rien d'autre) (Bertrand Tavernier, 1989).

The Long, Long Trail - Charles Chiltern's radio show from 1961 which inspired Oh What a Lovely War.


Oh What a Lovely War (BBC Radio 2 2014) - live broadcast of the Stratford Theatre Royal revival
Oh What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough, 1969) - 

Passing Bells, a BBC TV series aimed at a teenage audience (playlist for all five episodes)

Peaky Blinders (BBC, 2013 -) episodes on BobNational

Parades End (BBC/HB), 2012-2013) episodes on BobNational

They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson, 2018) trailer from lecture.

Voices of the First World War podcasts from the Imperial War Museum
With the Indian Troops at the Front (IWM 202/01-2)
World War One at Home project by the BBC with local radio broadcasts from the UK to download

World War One radio documentaries from the BBCWorld War One Through Arab Eyes three episode series from Al-Jazeera which explores the impact of WW1 on the contemporary Middle East.

By Anto 

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