WWI films

[Toujours Pret]

The link is to a collection of French films from the Great War that have been digitized and made available as a commemoration of the Centennial. The quality of these hundred year old films is truly amazing.

http://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/pages_EN/ECPAD.html

 

[dennishoddy]

I'm not getting the link to work.

 

[TedKennedy]

Can't get the link, but recently watched "Apocalypse WWI" on AHC. All original footage, fascinating background story. Makes you wish the leaders/politicians got to spend time in the trenches, instead of farmboys that had zero reason to be involved.
That war had to be the biggest waste of human life for absolutely no reason whatsoever, except power and greed by the monarchs, president, and war materials manufacturers. Very sad.
My great-uncle fought in both WWI and WWII - I can't imagine.....

 

[candrpotts]

This link will get you to the "catalog page"

http://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/accueil.html

 

[Toujours Pret]

fixed the link

 

[MoBoost]

What a goldmine!!!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[cjjtulsa]

Can't get the link, but recently watched "Apocalypse WWI" on AHC. All original footage, fascinating background story. Makes you wish the leaders/politicians got to spend time in the trenches, instead of farmboys that had zero reason to be involved.
That war had to be the biggest waste of human life for absolutely no reason whatsoever, except power and greed by the monarchs, president, and war materials manufacturers. Very sad.
My great-uncle fought in both WWI and WWII - I can't imagine.....

Ain't that the truth. And if not for the abortion that followed that conflict (Treaty of Versailles), there likely wouldn't have been a WWII - at least not like the one we know now.

My grandfather took a bullet in the First World War; wish I'd have asked my grandmother more about it when I was a kid.