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World War 1 in Colour is a six-episode television documentary series recounting the major events of World War I narrated by Kenneth Branagh. [1] The first of its six parts aired on 23 July 2003. [2]
Old Bill & Alphie at Yeo Hall, Royal Military College of Canada. Bill & Alphie's, the Royal Military College of Canada on-campus cadet pub in Kingston, Ontario is named after Bruce Bairnsfather's Great War cartoon characters. Yeo Hall at the Royal Military College of Canada features sculptures of Bill and Alphie.
The Great War is a history YouTube channel and web series which covered the events of World War I week-by-week from July 2014 to November 2018, [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8 ...
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.
Stop That Tank! is organized into two separate sections: the first animated section lasting three minutes, 15 seconds is a comedic demonstration of the anti-tank gun in an anti-Nazi propaganda "sketch", while the second longer section uses both cartoon animation and live action sequences to demonstrate proper use and handling of the Mk.1 Boys ...
Absolute figures are difficult to calculate due to differences in categorising expenditure since they often omit civilian infrastructure projects like railways which had logistical importance and military use. It is known, however, that from 1908 to 1913, military spending by the six major European powers increased by over 50% in real terms. [19]
The Chinese military said its short film had been inspired by another recent online phenomenon: a viral video series titled “Escape from the British Museum,” depicting a Chinese jade teapot ...
The war is not now seen as a 'fight about nothing', but as a war of ideals, a struggle between aggressive militarism and more or less liberal democracy. It has been acknowledged that British generals were often capable men facing difficult challenges and that it was under their command that the British army played a major part in the defeat of ...