See WWI in Color, in Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
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Arriving out of the ether of the internet this morning is a short trailer for They Shall Not Grow Old, director Peter Jackson’s feature-length documentary commemorating the centennial of the end of World War I. Which begs the question: Who else knew that Peter Jackson was even working on this documentary, anyway?
As it turns out, They Shall Not Grow Old was co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the U.K.’s WWI centenary organization, along with Imperial War Museums, who donated reams of original war footage and audio that has never been seen before. That footage has now been colorized, cleaned up and converted to 3D, which will make for an immersive history experience the likes of which we’ve never seen when talking about The Great War. Surely, there will be some ghastly sights involved here—don’t go in expecting it to be like a round of Battlefield 1 on the PS4.