"They Shall Not Grow Old" - WW1 documentary by Peter Jackson
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I've always felt there are atrocities committed by a few in EVERY army that EVER took to the field of battle.
My 8th grade teacher showed us pictures of his platoon bringing in a VC prisoner. Kid was hung from a rope out of a Huey chopper and was being dragged through tree tops.
I always get a uneasy feeling when people act like our soldiers are all a group of choir boys.
Just got back. This is a must see documentary. Very well done.
Saw it today at Jordan Creek. If you like documentaries..........like you said, a must see. If you are expecting Private Ryan....save your money.
The moment of transition... you will know it when it happens... was stunning.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...they-shall-not-grow-old-dec-17-18/2631683001/
Looks like it's coming back. If you haven't seen it, definitely recommend it.
Looks like it's coming back. If you haven't seen it, definitely recommend it.
I think it's on streaming somewhere too...I'll have to lookup where I saw it listed. I saw it in the theater when it was on a limited release and thought it was great! Highly recommended.
EDIT: It's on HBO Now if you subscribe to that as well.
This looks transcendent. So excited to see this. I have always lamented that we cannot look back in time. This is probably as far back of real footage we will ever get.
It is on HBO but I think the stream for it is less the "extra" how it was done which is as good as the feature itself.
Lincoln in 1858, three years before the war, and right before his death.
That man carried the weight of the world on his shoulders.
That man carried the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Didn't he have some kind of disease that altered his appearance as well?Lincoln in 1858, three years before the war, and right before his death.
That man carried the weight of the world on his shoulders.
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Listening to a lecture on audible about linguistics and he mentioned that Abe was supposed to have a high kind of raspy voice. I found that funny considering how we hear his voice depicted in recreations of his famous speech.
I have always heard his voice as Daniel Day-Lewis' take from Lincoln after that came out, rather than that James Earl Jones "voice for the ages."
The former is probably much truer to reality. I almost think that raspy, nervous quiver is better, though. It humanizes him. He was still a man, not a god.
We act like we have problems as a country (or a world) now but we have nothing compared to the 1860s, 1890s, 1910s, 1930s, 1940s, or even the late 1960s and 1970s.
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This alone is the reason to see it in a theater.
I doubt it will be as effective at home.
If you watch Ken Burns' Civil War documentary series, there is footing from the early 1900s of very old Civil War Vets
