1 Season
4 Episode
The Great War: The People's Story - Season 1 Episode 4
In 1917, the war is in its darkest phase. Everyone knows victory can only come at a long, slow, and painful cost. So many lives have been lost that now men previously exempted from military service – because of their age or because their jobs were considered vital to the war effort – are called up. We hear the stories of three of them: the black Glasgow shipbuilder Arthur Roberts, sent into the Battle of Passchendaele; Duff Cooper, the dashing and debonair lover of Lady Diana Manners, the daughter of the Duke of Rutland; and Londoner Ted Poole, just 18 and the last of his fathers’ sons left alive.
- Year: 2014
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary, Drama
- Studio: ITV1
- Keyword: world war i
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- Cast: Olivia Colman, Giles Alderson, Verity Marshall