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Tony Robinson's World War 1

2014 • Discovery Channel
4.2
12 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (4)

1 Episode 1
10/25/14
Tony Robinson unpicks the Great War using a unique archive of 3D photographs taken in the trenches at the time. These incredible images have never been broadcast before.
2 Episode 2
11/1/14
Tony Robinson explores the stalemate of trench warfare that culminated in the devastating Battle of the Somme, using 3D images taken at the time that have never been broadcast.
3 Episode 3
11/12/14
With The Battle of the Somme in full swing, Tony Robinson reveals some of the unprecedented technologies that made the war even bloodier. Features rare stereoscopic images.
4 Episode 4
11/19/14
Tony Robinson looks at the final year of the conflict. After a lengthy stalemate, Germany risks everything in one last push but British tactics and technology help the Allies prevail.

About this show

In this series Sir Tony Robinson, the history presenter and former Black Adder star, tells the story of the Great War. How it started, how it changed the world and how it finished with a 100 day flourish of military brilliance, which finally put an end to four years of incompetence and slaughter. With the aid of hundreds of amazing archived 3D images of the Great War which chronicle WW1 from start to finish and breathe new life into the story, Tony Robinson’s World War 1 allows modern audiences to see the war in a completely new way. Robinson will also show how the Great War changed British people for generations to come – liberating large portions of the working class, powering the rise of the Labour party and breaking the old ties of service to the aristocracy. The series will begin with Robinson visiting a Berlin Kaiserpanorama show, where he will explain the stereoscope 3D process and uses it to show Europe (in 3D) before the war – a cultured and beautiful lost world.

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4.2
12 reviews
Douglas MacLeod
July 31, 2016
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Alex Mcdonald
November 16, 2014
Tony Robinson.. legend!
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