The Great War: Television History Revisited
Taylor Downing recalls the BBC series The Great War.
At a time when television-historians are among the highest paid performers on the small screen, and when television history has been called the new cookery, it is magnificent to be able to see again one of the first great examples of the genre. The Great War was a twenty-six-part series on the First World War made in 1964 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the war. Apparently pubs emptied early on Wednesday nights when it was first shown.
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