3/22/2023 0 Comments Documentary with color war footage![]() There's hundreds of books about all that stuff. We also edited out any references to dates and places, because I didn’t want the movie to be about this day here or that day there. In a way it became an anonymous and agnostic film. ![]() There were so many of them that names would be popping up on the screen every time a voice appeared. Jackson stated: "We made a decision not to identify the soldiers as the film happened. "This is not a story of the First World War, it is not a historical story, it may not even be entirely accurate but it's the memories of the men who fought – they're just giving their impressions of what it was like to be a soldier." After receiving the footage, Jackson decided that the film would not feature traditional narration and that it would instead only feature audio excerpts of the soldiers talking about their war memories, in order to make the film about the soldiers themselves for the same reason, it barely features any dates or named locations. The interviews came from 200 veterans, with the audio from 120 of them being used in the film. According to Jackson, to make the film, the crew of They Shall Not Grow Old reviewed 600 hours of interviews from the BBC and the IWM and 100 hours of original film footage from the IWM. The film was co-commissioned by 14–18 NOW and Imperial War Museums in association with the BBC, who approached Jackson in 2015 for the project. It was acclaimed by critics for its restoration work, immersive atmosphere and portrayal of war, and earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. Following its box office success, the film received a wide theatrical release in February 2019 (the film's theatrical release was handled by Warner Bros. They Shall Not Grow Old premiered simultaneously at the BFI London Film Festival and in selected cinemas in the UK on 16 October 2018, before airing on BBC Two on 11 November 2018 (the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918) it received a limited US release on 17 December. The title was inspired by the line "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old" from the 1914 poem " For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon, famous for being used in the Ode of Remembrance. The crew reviewed 600 hours of interviews from 200 veterans and 100 hours of original film footage to make the film. Jackson, whose grandfather (to whom the film is dedicated) fought in the war, intended for the film to be an immersive experience of "what it was like to be a soldier" rather than a story or a recount of events. It is Jackson's first documentary as director. Most of the footage has been colourised and transformed with modern production techniques, with the addition of sound effects and voice acting to be more evocative and feel closer to the soldiers' actual experiences. Audio is from BBC and Imperial War Museum (IWM) interviews of British servicemen who fought in the conflict. The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum's archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of release. They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson.
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