Synopsis
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
2018 Directed by Peter Jackson
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
Brent Burge Phil Heywood Martin Kwok Dave Whitehead Michael Hedges Hayden Collow Alexis Feodoroff Emile de la Rey
Они не состарятся, 他们已不再变老, Те не ще остареят
Truly incredible. Very happy I took advantage of the
one night only screening at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills. On the big screen. (I know how much some of you love when I state that)
The incredible restoration, colorization, 3D application and sound work transform the archival news footage in to a totally immersive experience.
It’s educational to boot!
It was followed by a 30 minute making-of doc that was quite informative
and just as fascinating.
Odd this was looked over in terms of awards this year. Not only does it deserve recognition as a historical documentary but it’s a technical feat as well.
Among the unruly film conservationist community – an elusive and underloved subsection of society at the best of times – there is much discontent afoot. Peter Jackson’s latest project, a commission from the Imperial War Museum to mark the centenary of the First World War’s conclusion, has been considered by some in said community to be an act of barbarity, an unjustifiable marring of historical record for the sake of empty titillation. This project, entitled They Shall Not Grow Old, is understandably controversial: Jackson has taken archive footage from the Western Front and not only colourized it, but dubbed it with sound and rendered it in 3D. And that’s not even to mention blowing up 4:3 to 16:9, often considered…
Classic Peter Jackson tech fetish crossed with classic Peter Jackson unvarnished sentiment. THE HOBBIT didn't need 48fps (or two extra movies for that matter but that's neither there nor back again), and this footage didn't need to be colorized and augmented with sound. It's still super super neat. I want to hear the interview with the guy who took all the pictures of his fellow soldiers taking a shit.
Scientific Fact: No matter what year it is, or where you are, if you point a camera at a group of young men one of them will say “Hi mum!”
I don’t know if they’re doing this at all the screenings, but I was lucky enough to have a 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary of the film play after the credits. Absolutely amazing seeing the technical feats and their process. My screening was also in 3D, which was pretty effective.
Narratively, this is nothing groundbreaking for the documentary format. It’s basically audio of interviews with footage playing which loosely pictures what’s being described. Although it’s the sheer organization and editing of that 700 hours of footage and 300 hours of audio interviews that’s incredible. The fact that Jackson chose to tell the story solely from the perspective of the soldiers who were *there* and exclude all other historians and “experts” was a…
I was looking forward to seeing this, until I remembered Peter Jackson made a mockumentary that was in poor taste to silent film lovers: Forgotten Silver (he just never ends the joke, although the end credits specify that it's fiction).
This film is indeed a real documentary, and furthermore, it's a tribute to his grandfather who was a soldier in The Great War. The idea that war is useless is espoused. Young men had to endure horrors that no one should even dream of.
There is an introduction from Peter Jackson. Most of the movie is shown in 3-D. I found it pretty unnecessary, but hey, it was not bad. I do prefer things to jump out at me when…
I will award this “Outstanding Contribution to Cinema History” of the Year.
Selten so toll restauriertes und neu vertontes Material aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg gesehen!
A fantastic showcase of what modern technology is capable of achieving in the realm of restoration. I can somewhat understand why a lot of people are against the notion of colorizing and dubbing this footage, but I think the manner and intent behind Jackson’s approach was very respectful. The behind-the-scenes look at the end really assured me that the focus was centered on bringing the footage to life rather than showing off a tech gimmick.
A thoroughly detailed, powerfully haunting & surprisingly immersive account of the British soldiers' harrowing time during the First World War that also doubles as an astounding work of restoration, They Shall Not Grow Old is unlike any war documentary, for it manages to transport the viewers back to that timeline and puts them right into the soldiers’ shoes to make them witness the carnage from an unsettling close range.
Taking the original never-before-seen footage of World War I, applying colours & sound to those archived images, carefully arranging it with soldiers’ oral excerpts of their first-hand experience and employing a few cinematic touches to give those frames a lifelike quality, They Shall Not Grow Old delivers an emotional impact so profound & affecting…
Peter Jacksons bemerkenswerte, unmittelbarere und an die Nieren gehende Dokumentation, wurde im November 2018, 100 Jahre nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, von der BBC in Auftrag gegeben.
Der Film versucht den Zuseher in die banale und schreckliche Realitäten des 1. Weltkriegs eintauchen zu lassen und dies gelingt ihm auf wirklich erstaunliche Art und Weise. Als Zuseher kann man nur dankbar sein, dass uns Jackson zumindest die Gerüche des Grabenkriegs erspart, die in der Dokumentation immer wieder erwähnt werden.
"The shall not grow old" beginnt mit einem Vorwort des Regisseurs, der uns informiert, dass das Imperial War Museum vor fünf Jahren mit rund 600 Stunden, nie zuvor gesehenem Filmmaterial von der Westfront auf ihn zukam. Man bat ihn, daraus eine…
Extremely interesting, probably could’ve been structured better but that’s just preference
colorization, cheesy foley, and poorly done increased frame rates does not a more realistic depiction of WW1 make
Source: 480p file. Thwarts Jackson’s widely reported technical achievement. Don’t watch with that resolution!
Never-Before-Seen WW1 footage Greatly Revised to Color mixed with recounts of former soldiers Depicts the Horrors, Hell of Fighting and Living conditions on the Battlefield.
Following up your title card with a long sequence about the preparation of war and the "aging" of teens so as to send more people of to war may be one of my favorite film structural choices. Seeing smooth, smiling faced in close detail and vibrant color while artillery fires off in the background or splicing footage of comradery with nunerous stories of brutality against your fellow man is incredibly effective and haunting. What may initially seem tacky or cliche slowly mounts in a relentless effort to replicate a feeling more so than a clear picture and I think it works.
Impressive in the breadth of aspects covered in the life of a soldier on the line. I don’t find the colorization and inclusion of sound for historical footage (compared to say, colorized It’s a Wonderful Life) because it really does help to individualize each unique man, to the benefit of the historical record. The treatment of returning servicemen in the civilian world may as well be identical to the treatment of returning soldiers today. No war has had a greater distinction between the gallantry of individual soldiers and the obscene machinations of those in power than World War 1.
Many Americans are oblivious to the horrors that British, French, and other allied troops face for three grueling years without help from US forces. World War I is where we really learned for the first time what atrocities man could inflict upon other men. Yes, all through time there’s been brutalities in war, but in WWI...we could see it. Poets recorded it in writing. The images are haunting.
Is often overlooked in American history — glossed over like, “yeah, these alliances really fucked then over!” but it was where modern warfare met armies trained with traditional techniques. The body count was brutal; Britain more of less lost an entire generation of young men at the Seine, on the Marne, in…
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