World War 1 in Colour

World War 1 in Colour is a six-episode television documentary series recounting the major events of World War I narrated by Kenneth Branagh.^[1] The first of its six parts aired on 23 July 2003.^[2] The series consists of colourised footage, with the colour of the images having been enhanced by computer-aided technology.^[1] It reportedly took 400 technicians over a period of five months to colourise the footage.^[3]

The series investigates the development of warfare throughout the five years of World War 1 from all sides of the armed forces and also includes never before seen interviews from survivors of the Great War.^[2] In 2005, the series was released on DVD in the United States. The DVD is presented as two discs, with three episodes apiece on the two discs.^[3]

The series features interviews with a number of World War I veterans:

• Arthur Barraclough (1898–2004)
• Harry Patch (1898–2009), Britain's last survivor of the trenches
• Fred Bunday (1900–2002)
• Arthur Halestrap (1898–2004)
• Hubert Williams (1896–2002),^[4] the last pilot of the Royal Flying Corps of WWI
• Bill Stone (1900–2009), the penultimate Royal Navy veteran of WWI
• Jack Davis (1895–2003), the last of Kitchener's Volunteers

• 50 minute CGI special Tactics & Strategy
• 15 minutes of interviews with the production team (Making the Series)

• World War II in Colour

• World War 1 in Colour at IMDb