About the show:

A landmark production in British television history, unseen for almost 40 years

In the early 1960s the BBC embarked on one of their most important and
ambitious series ever. It was to be the definitive history of the First World War
complete in twenty-six 40-minute episodes. So successful were the BBC that they
created one of the most highly acclaimed television documentary series ever - and
an inspired account of the world-shattering events of 1914-1918 that remains totally
unequalled to this day

The Great War is narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, and employs the voice skills of
many other leading actors of the day including Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring

To tell its story, the series includes authentic archive footage and stunning photographic
images gathered from 37 separate sources around the world. It also features interviews
with many veterans of the war (most were still only in their 60s), as well as almost 150
separate extracts from diaries, letters & reports from the war

Hugely successful and critically acclaimed around the world, The great war's style
content and high production values were later to inspire Jeremy Isaacs to create
"The world at war"

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Technical Specs:

Filesize: ~350 MB
Runtime: ~40 min
Number of parts: 26 + 2 extras
Video Codec: DivX 5.0
Video Bitrate: 1084 kb/s
Audio Codec: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR
Frame Size: 592x432
Subtitles: None