World War 1 in Colour

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World War 1 in Colour is a documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh. The first of its six parts aired on 1 September 2003 in the United Kingdom. It was released on DVD in the United States as World War 1 in Color on 10 May 2005. The documentary consists of colourised footage from World War I.

It also contains interviews with WW1 veterans: Arthur Barraclough (1898–2004), Harry Patch (1898–2009) (Britain's last survivor of the trenches), Fred Bunday (1900-2002), Arthur Halestrap (1898–2004), Hubert Williams (1895–2002) (the last pilot of the Royal Flying Corps of WWI), Bill Stone (1900–2009) (the penultimate Royal Navy veteran of WWI), and Jack Davis (1895-2003) (the last of Kitchener's Volunteers.)

The series was available as a free gift in The Daily Telegraph during August 2007.

Episode 1 - Catastrophe
Episode 2 - Slaughter in the Trenches
Episode 3 - Blood in the Air
Episode 4 - Killers of the Sea
Episode 5 - Mayhem on the Eastern Front
Episode 6 - Victory and Despair
Episode 7 - Tactics & Strategy - Episode narrated by Robert Powell
Episode 8 - Making the Series

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