BBC They Shall Not Grow Old 720p HDTV x265 AAC

Employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there.



Driven by a personal interest in the conflict, Jackson sets out to explore the day-to-day experience of its combatants. Immersed for months in the BBC and Imperial War Museum archives, Jackson created narratives and strategies regarding how this story should be told. Using only the voices of those involved, the film explores the reality of war on the front line: their attitudes to the conflict, how they ate, rested and formed friendships in those moments between battles, as well as their hopes and dreams for the future. Each frame of the film has been hand-colourised by Jackson's team, the footage 3D-digitised, transformed with modern post-production techniques, enabling these soldiers to walk and talk among us.



Reaching into the mists of time, Jackson aims to give these men voices, investigate the hopes and fears of these veterans that survived and were able to tell their stories, and detail the humility and humanity of those who represented a generation forever changed by the destruction of a global war.



Technical Spec

Video Codec: x265 CABAC [email protected]

Video Bitrate: CRF 23 (~1656Kbps)

Video Resolution: 1280x692

Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Frame Rate: 25 FPS

Audio Codec: HE-AAC

Audio Bitrate: 160Kbps CBR 24KHz

Audio Channels: 6

Run-Time: 99 mins

Number of Parts: 1

Part Size: 1.26 GB

Source: HDTV

Subtitles: Merged