Edwardians In Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn - Original Series - 4. The Soldiers' Story

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet.

For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with the world's first colour camera system and dispatched them across the globe. Their films and 72,000 photographs offer a unique insight into the formative years of the 20th Century.

During the First World War, Kahn dispatched his photographers to the battlefields, where they recorded in remarkably intimate detail the everyday lives of French troops fighting on the Western Front. The Soldiers' Story shows the poignant images they captured as they journeyed through shattered landscapes of Eastern France. Their remarkable pictures also document the horrifyingly crude medical procedures at field hospitals; the first aeroplanes and the heavy armaments that were appearing in the war zone; the heroism of the nurses; and the endurance of an army which sustained more casualties than any other during The Great War. (R)

Broadcast on:

BBC Four, 1:55am Monday 10th November 2008

First broadcast:

Tuesday 9th September 2008

Duration:

60 minutes

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Categories:

• Factual,
• Arts, Culture & the Media,
• History