The documentary I watched was about World War 1 called They Shall Not Grow Old. This documentary was directed and produced by Peter Jackson who created the film using original footage of WW1 from the Imperial War Museum’s archives. He took the films and colorized them, transforming them with modern productions techniques to give us an immersive 2 hour documentary. During the film, British Servicemen who fought in the conflict were interviewed and these were used as part of the audio. They spoke about how food was very lacking as most men began to get sick from traveling days without provisions and about how they all began to get used to the sounds of guns and seeing death, something which they were not proud of getting used to. The other parts of the audio are from BBC who gave historians’ viewpoints of the Great War. Every person who spoke agreed that the Great War was a tragedy which should have taught the world a lesson, but apparently it did not as in a few years, the Second World War would take place.
This documentary made me realize just how AWFUL World War 1 was. While I have always known that the soldiers in World War 1 faced extreme hunger and poverty, but the original footage shown really proved to me that the soldiers were practically skin and bones. I am very concerned with personal hygiene, and seeing the men with dirt all over themselves and their teeth rotting away really disturbed me. I felt pity for the men in the footage; none of them looked happy. I hope that another world war will never come again in history.
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