中文名称：一战风云录
英文名称：World War I in colour
资源类型：DVDRip
发行时间：2000年
电视台：Discovery
地区：美国
语言：英语
简介：


Release Date: September 1, 2003
Classification: Exempt

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,188
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Edition Details:
? Region 0
? Box set, PAL
? Number of discs: 2
? ASIN: B0000BXBX8
? Catalogue Number: FHED1709
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DVD Features: ? Special Feature Information:
° Tactics And Strategy CGI Special
° Interviews With Production Team
° Biographies
? Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital
? Main Language: English

Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
World War I in Colour is a Channel 5 documentary (6 x 50-minute episodes) made with the cooperation of the Imperial War Museum, designed to make the Great War come alive for a 21st-century audience. The events of 1914-18 are authoritatively narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who presents the military and political overview, while interviews with historians add different perspectives. The human cost is conveyed by moving interviews with the now very elderly survivors, and by extracts from letters and memoirs. All aspects of the war, on land, sea and air are covered in separate programmes. In theory the series continues the heritage of ITV's The Second World War in Colour (1999) and Britain at War in Colour (2000), and with 75 per cent of the material never shown on television before there is every reason to watch.
The crucial difference between this and the WWII programmes is that the Great War wasn't filmed in colour, and the footage has been computer colourised. The programme-makers argue the conflict itself was in colour--but however realistic the digital processing, it still feels inauthentic and historically a distortion. Worse still is their destroying the original compositions by cropping the top and bottom of the material to fit widescreen TVs. The result is a potentially excellent series badly presented, best watched with the colour turned off. Even then it cannot compete with the BBC's 26-part The Great War (1964), still one of the finest documentaries ever made.

On the DVD: World War I in Colour is presented on two discs with three episodes on each disc. The modern interview clips look and sound immaculate, while the historical footage varies from very poor to quite good. Even so, the picture resolution is not helped by discarding a third of the original images and stretching what remains to widescreen. The budget spent on colourisation would have been better used to restore the often very scratchy black-and-white film, and to pay for an orchestra to rerecord the score, which is realised with a clichéd palette of preset electronic samples.

Both DVDs reproduce the same general background facts, timeline and 20 biographies as static text screens. Disc One has a 15-minute behind-the-scenes feature in which producer Philip Nugus and director Jonathan Martin justify the colourisation. Disc Two offers Tactics & Strategy, which at 52 minutes amounts to a whole seventh programme, mixing archive footage with new computer graphics to illustrate in detail 13 specific aspects of the conflict. Presented in 4:3 ratio this is the most creative, original and rewarding part of the entire package. --Gary S Dalkin

Synopsis
For the first time we can witness the gritty reality of life in the trenches and other aspects of the first World War in full colour. Includes material from Russia, Germany, France, Italy, the USA and Britain's own Imperial War Museum.


1914—1918年，资本主义国家的两大军事集团———以德国和奥匈帝国为主的同盟国和以英、法、俄国为核心的协约国，为争夺世界霸权、重新瓜分殖民地和划分势力范围，首次在全球范围进行的一场帝国主义战争。

　　1914年6月28日，奥匈帝国皇储斐迪南大公夫妇在萨拉热窝被刺成为大战的导火索。战争首先由同盟国挑起，经过4年零3个月的厮杀，有35个国家和地区15亿人（约占当时世界人口2／3）卷入了战争，直接用于战争的费用达1863亿美元，双方共阵亡853万人，最后以同盟国的失败和协约国的胜利而告终。

　　这场战争的突出特点是：战争带有真正的总体性，交战国第一次实施国民经济总动员；飞机、坦克和远程火炮等新式武器用于战场，导致航空兵、坦克兵、防化兵等兵种产生；战斗行动从陆地、海上扩大到空中和海底，具有立体战的性质；作战部队首次编成了集团军群（方面军），作战样式发生了重大变化。

　　这场战争使大部分帝国主义国家被削弱，一些帝国主义国家发生了革命，殖民地和半殖民地国家的民主革命和民族解放运动风起云涌，对世界历史进程产生了深远影响。