Lord of the Rings director talks about using footage and audio from the Imperial War Museum archive
The BBC TV premiere and cinema release of They Shall Not Grow Old, the first world war documentary created by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, will mark a high point of this weekend’s Remembrance Day commemorations, which mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the conflict in 1918.
Culled from footage and audio from the Imperial War Museum archive, They Shall Not Grow Old has already attracted rave reviews for its painstaking conversion of grainy footage of British troops on the western front into startling colourised images. The Guardian’s chief film critic, Peter Bradshaw, said: “The effect is electrifying … soldiers are returned to an eerie, hyperreal kind of life in front of our eyes,” while the Daily Telegraph suggested it was a “historical portrait of matchless immediacy and power”.
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