Synopsis
Transforming archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there.
- Programme: They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2018
- History
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