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Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle is a 1985 BBC television documentary series about the history of warfare from antiquity to the Falklands War.Each episode looks at warfare from the perspective of different participants: infantryman, artillerist, cavalryman, tanker, airman, guerrilla, surgeon, logistician and commander.
The Undercover Soldier is a 2008 BBC documentary which investigated bullying in the British Army in the wake of the Deepcut enquiry.For the programme, BBC journalist Russell Sharp went undercover as a soldier, enrolling in the army for six months basic training at the Infantry Training Centre, at the Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire. [1]
They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson.It was created using footage of the First World War held by the British Imperial War Museum (IWM), most of which was previously unseen, and all of which was over 100 years old by the time of the film's release.
The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War.The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
The World at War is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War.Produced in 1973 at a cost of £900,000 (equivalent to £13,700,000 in 2023), it was the most expensive factual series ever made at the time. [1]
The Last Tommy is a three episode documentary series about some of Britain's last veterans of the First World War. [1] It was produced by Quickfire Media, narrated by Bernard Hill and commissioned by the BBC. The main theme from Schindler's List was used as the series' background score.
The documentary series was produced by KCET/Los Angeles along with the BBC and the Imperial War Museum in London. It took five years to make [1] and cost five million dollars. [2] Blaine Baggett was the executive producer and Jay Winter was the chief historian. [3] It aired in the United States on PBS in November 1996.
The Paras is a 1983 BBC TV documentary series about British Parachute Regiment recruits of 480 (Training) Platoon undertaking their basic training at the Depot of the Parachute Regiment (Depot Para) at Aldershot Garrison between January and June 1982. The series was broadcast on BBC1 in March and April 1983. It was later repeated in 1984, with ...