December 5, 20187 yr Director Peter Jackson has dug into his wealth of film technology expertise to create a documentary on The Great War using 100 year old film footage. He enlisted film restoration experts, historians, colorization experts, and even forensic lip readers to put together a documentary using nothing but original film footage. The words spoken in the documentary are the words of those where were actually there in the war: either through audio taken from vintage interviews with WW1 veterans, or by actors over-dubbing the actual deciphered words being spoken by the soldiers in the silent film footage. The documentary has a two-day special engagement in select theaters on Monday, December 17th and on Thursday, December 27th. I definitely plan on going to see this in theaters.
December 5, 20187 yr Author ASHLAND AREA SHOWINGS: Town Cinema 400 Winchester Road, Ashland, KY 41101 December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) BOWLING GREEN AREA SHOWINGS: Regal Bowling Green Stadium 12 323 Great Escape Drive, Bowling Green, KY 42101 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) December 27: 1:00pm LOUISVILLE AREA SHOWINGS: AMC Stonybrook 20 2745 S Hurstbourne Pkwy, Louisville, KY 40220 December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) Devember 27: 1:00pm (3D), 4:00pm (3D) Preston Crossing 16 9700 Preston Crossing Blvd, Okolona, KY 40229 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm Regal New Albany Stadium 16 300 Professional Court, New Albany, IN 47150 December 27: 1:00pm Tinseltown Louisville 4400 Towne Center Drive, Louisville, KY 40241 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm LEXINGTON AREA SHOWINGS: Fayette Mall 3800 Mall Road, Lexington, KY 40503 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm Regal Hamburg Pavilion 16 1949 Starshoot Road, Lexington, KY 40509 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) December 27: 1:00pm The Shops at Richmond Hills 2103 Lantern Ridge Drive, Richmond, KY 40475 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA SHOWINGS: AMC Newport on the Levee 20 1 Levy Way, Newport, KY 41071 December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) December 27: 1:00pm (3D), 4:00pm (3D) Envision Cinemas Bar & Grille 4780 Cornell Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45241 December 27: 1:00pm (3D) Florence 14 7860 Mall Road, Florence, KY 41042 December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) Regal Wilder Stadium 14 103 Crossing Drive, Wilder, KY 41076 December 17: 4:00pm, 7:00pm December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D) December 27: 1:00pm PADUCAH AREA SHOWINGS: Kentucky Oaks Mall 5159 Hinkleville Road, Paducah, KY 42001 December 17: 4:00pm (3D), 7:00pm (3D)
December 5, 20187 yr I don't know nearly enough about WWI. I'll need to potentially try and check this one out. Peter Jackson perks up my interest too. Thanks for posting about this CWB.
December 5, 20187 yr I would like to see this. I loved the series that was on one of the history channels that colorized the old films and went through with much detail the global aspects of the war. I think it was called Apocalypse.
December 5, 20187 yr Oh, wow! I'm definitely going now. Didn't know anything about it. Thanks for posting.
December 5, 20187 yr I don't know nearly enough about WWI. I'll need to potentially try and check this one out. Peter Jackson perks up my interest too. Thanks for posting about this CWB. I recommend "The World Wars" by the History Channel. It was made about 4 years ago. Covers WWI, the interwar years, and WWII by following some of the major players. Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Wilson, Stalin, Mussolini, Patton, MacArthur.
December 6, 20187 yr I’m all in. Jackson hasn’t always made the best choices, but when he really throws himself into a project, it will at least look spectacular. Agreed, CWB, this is one to see in the theater for sure.
December 6, 20187 yr Definitely in, just bought myself a ticket. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention CWB. I always try to see military films in theater in a hope that they will continue making them. I am really looking forward to this one because of the uniqueness and it being about a war I am not as familiar with. I worry that my and the younger generation are going to lose touch with what our nation went through during WWI & WWII.
December 6, 20187 yr I’ve been reading about this upcoming documentary movie for a few months. From the preview footage it looks like Jackson has done a massive amount of work using the latest technology and succeeded in making an excellent film. There’s not enough out there on World War 1 and I’m really anticipating watching this. He corrects the old WW 1 era fast moving film speed to make it match up with modern film speed and then put color and sound to it. He uses professional lip readers to interpret what the men were saying and dubbed it into the movie. I think it’s going to be an enjoyable experience but also a sad one. Most of the film is about British soldiers as well as German. They were fighting from 1914 until the end of the war in November 1918. The United States didn’t enter until 1917 and that might be why there’s not as much footage about them. It’s getting great reviews and worth the price of admission, and definitely should be watched on the big screen.
December 7, 20187 yr I don't know nearly enough about WWI. I'll need to potentially try and check this one out. Peter Jackson perks up my interest too. Thanks for posting about this CWB. You're in the same boat with most Americans. Truly sad that we more or less ignore it in our history classes, to the point where many of our memorials to the men who died in WWI are now crumbling and in disrepair. I don't blame you for it, it's just the nature of how we cover it. It's less cinematic and there is no one that really fits the narrative of cartoonishly evil bad guys like the Nazi's in WWII so it is harder to cover. Americans may like an anti-hero but we have traditionally struggled with not really having a villain when telling our stories.
December 7, 20187 yr I recommend "The World Wars" by the History Channel. It was made about 4 years ago. Covers WWI, the interwar years, and WWII by following some of the major players. Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Wilson, Stalin, Mussolini, Patton, MacArthur. There is also a YouTube Channel that breaks down WWI week by week called "The Great War." It is long and dense (hell I haven't finished it, I am still in 1916 on it), but it is a good thing to watch or listen to in the background. Martin's "The Great War," is a good book for WWI. It was our textbook for my WWI class at Bellarmine. His bibliography is a great resource for finding all sorts of details about the war.
December 7, 20187 yr I have spent a lot of time on WWI in my life and I get viscerally angry when I see people not give it the respect that it deserves. Most of that, in the US anyway, is lack of knowledge and education on the subject. It was a long drawn out war of attrition where there were no heroes and no real villains. There is no movie where you can watch it and not feel sorry for everyone involved in the hopelessness and horror of a modern war just coming into its own. Some of the most jarring and unnerving images of war in the 20th century are the weird juxtaposing of the old ways of war with the new while looking at the pockmarked moonscape that no-man's land became.
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