Games on the Battlefield
Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War -- popular participation in sports, once the realm of the elite. For four years, sport represented a welcome respite from the killing fields of Europe.
- Year: 2015
- Country: France
- Genre: Documentary, War
- Studio: ECPAD, Gaumont-Pathe Archives
- Keyword: world war i
- Director: Anne Bettenfeld, Christophe Duchiron
- Cast: Kester Lovelace, Nicolas Medad