I Was There: The Great War Interviews
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49m
In the early 1960s, 280 eyewitnesses of the First World War were interviewed for the series, The Great War. Using never-before-seen footage from these interviews, this film illuminates the poignant human experience of the war, through the eyes of those who survived it.
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