Manthast Absolutely amazing

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

wsidejack1 I'm quite well read on the First World (Great) War and I enjoyed these three episodes a great deal. Although I was not there (on the battlefield) myself, the three episodes smacked of reality. They nicely drew on the experiences of individual soldiers (Paddy Kennedy, for example, is a major figure in Martin Middlebrook's classic work The First Day on the Somme and his story can found in print there) and the somewhat larger military picture was provided with some very nice computer graphics that added to the information but did not misrepresent or distort the real story. Later history (events since 1918) has obscured some things from the current view, but this war was a REALLY BIG DEAL for Great Britain and it and the subsequent events (political and otherwise) are in important ways responsible for how the Edwardian (Victorian) UK became the UK of today.

jrob0914 This is what telling a story is all about. It feels like a real story and it is. The interspersed scenes of the real war work perfectly and the character development is just right for me. They do a great job of showing the progress of the battles which is missing in most all war stories. Finally this show affected me like nothing in a long time. Yes I cried like a baby at the end of episode 3. The first episode broke me up also and the knowledge of the bravery and the awards for it truly exhausted me. Action, truth, great stories, Perfect. The directors and producers need to learn from this how to tell the war stories from all wars in the last century.

wgfaej Very much enjoyed this show. I don't get all fussed about rivet counting. And judging from some of the reviewers, they were expecting a tried and true formula. The "video game" graphics and modern music may have well drawn in the younger gen, and that's important.There's lots of war movies out there, so you're comments about '80's rock music etc are misguided, this is how younger gen see things and it works. Plus, I hate to say it, the US ones are usually better, and all I hear is "the yanks think they won the bloody war themselves!" Most of those in the know, know that's not true but frankly, Spielberg, Hanks et al. nailed it, sorry, they did, and if another country does the same, good one them. Dunkirk is a fine example, there was even a Canadian series modelled somewhat on BOB style that was modern, easy to follow with an accompanying web site (although it's gone now I think) History Canada's War Story. Same with Paul Gross in Passchendaele. So I hope this give some of the younger less uptight gen a glimpse, of what the great war was like, from a first person perspective.

angelique-90369 I had six second cousins (two times removed) that I've discovered from ancestry research who died in WW1. From the ages of 18 to 42 they died in Turkey, France, Belgium, and India. All of them were buried where they died except one who died of his wounds and is buried in Kent, England. Two of them were in the Manchester 18th. Watching this series took me to the battlefields, and I felt as if I were in the thick of it with them. The series is an emotional experience when you know that you have the DNA of distant cousins who served, fought, and perished in this terrible war. This has been undoubtedly the most moving re-enactment and documentary about the war, at least for me. Well done.