War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

War Documentary hosted by Michael Sheen, published by BBC in 2014 - English narration.

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The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is often overlooked, however, is the literary importance of the Somme: more writers and poets fought in it than in any other battle in history.
Narrated by Michael Sheen, War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme details the experiences of the poets and writers who served in the battle. The work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg and JRR Tolkien (who arrived at the Western Front with ambitions to be a poet) was informed and transformed by the battle. Taken together, their experiences allow us to see this dreadful historical event through multiple points of view.
The film uses animation, documentary accounts, surviving artefacts, battalion war diaries and the landscape itself to reconnect this literature to the events that inspired it.

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Technical Specs
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* Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
* Video Bitrate: CRF 21 (~2481Kbps)
* Video Resolution: 1280x720
* Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
* Frames Rate: 25 FPS
* Audio Codec: AAC-LC
* Audio Bitrate: Q=0.45 VBR 48KHz (~128Kbps)
* Audio Channels: 2
* Run-Time: 89 mins
* Number Of Parts: 1
* Part Size: 1.63 GB
* Source: HDTV
* Subtitles: Merged

Links
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* http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pw01r