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Have you seen the Great War series on You tube? 8-10 minute episodes come out each week on Thursdays covering that week 100 years ago.. they also do special on personalities and weapons and small nations .. IIRC 385 episodes so far

Home page https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

all episodes in chronological order with specials in the right sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0x ... w3KxuKsMvT

do the math over 50 hours... lots of detail.

I like the PBS series the stuff on Wilson blew my mind freaking control freak

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Sarge wrote:Have you seen the Great War series on You tube? 8-10 minute episodes come out each week on Thursdays covering that week 100 years ago.. they also do special on personalities and weapons and small nations .. IIRC 385 episodes so far

Home page https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

all episodes in chronological order with specials in the right sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0x ... w3KxuKsMvT

do the math over 50 hours... lots of detail.

I like the PBS series the stuff on Wilson blew my mind freaking control freak
Yeah, he's a bit less of a good president in my eyes, especially after censorship and organizing those citizen committees to stifle free speech and force people to buy war bonds.

Wow, I will check the youtubes out for that WWI series!

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Sarge wrote:Have you seen the Great War series on You tube? 8-10 minute episodes come out each week on Thursdays covering that week 100 years ago.. they also do special on personalities and weapons and small nations .. IIRC 385 episodes so far

Home page https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

all episodes in chronological order with specials in the right sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0x ... w3KxuKsMvT

do the math over 50 hours... lots of detail.

I like the PBS series the stuff on Wilson blew my mind freaking control freak
I started watching it in early 2015, so I'm almost caught up, while remaining current. I really like it. I also like the other partnerships around it. Very engaging. Also, little ten minute-or-so blurbs are sweet for busy people.

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I watched and enjoyed both.
A favorite of mine that I can recommend is the BBC production The First World War ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i5gFENX0Lk ) I binge watched the entire series when I was recovering from knee surgery.
It can be a little hard to follow because it jumps all over the place, but I really enjoyed that the narrative was not the typical "Franz Ferdinand - Western Front - Tannenburg - Western Front - 11th Hour."
I have come to enjoy WWI stuff much more than WWII, because the latter has been so romanticized and over-done with the exact same stories (noble white guys fighting cartoonish nazis and japs!! USA!!!!!) that it seems to me that the old propaganda machine is still working.
Anyway, great series, all.
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HuckleberryFun wrote:I like Ken Burns. My Longtime Companion of many years can't stand him. He says he's overly sentimental and has a syrupy voice that starts to grate on him before long. I guess that comes from his years as a hard boiled newspaper reporter. Fair enough. I skulk off to guiltily watch my Ken Burns in private.
I had cocktails with Ken Burns just before his Prohibition film came out. It was a small meet and greet event to launch the new film. He is a really interesting man to talk to one and one. What you see on film is what you get in real life. He is very thoughtful and measured in his responses. But whatever you do when talking to him, do not bring up baseball. That is his passion and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of it.

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pepys wrote:Check it out, finally a very good documentary (six hours) on the USA's participation in WWI. I'd rate it good as anything Ken Burns has done.
I have been watching it.

I've also read a lot about the Great War. Having lived in Europe one really sees the effects how that war affected society and continent much more than we do in the US. In many ways WW2 was just WW1 Part 2 and the current Middle-East issues come from it as well. It is the defining event in our modern society. An event we still struggle with more than 100 years after it happened.

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