Review: Peter Jackson's documentary 'They Shall Not Grow Old' brings WWI footage to life
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 18, 2018
3 minutes
"They Shall Not Grow Old" is a tribute paid by the present to the past, and what a gorgeous gift it turns out to be.
The past is the army of invariably anonymous British soldiers who brought bravery, stoicism and grit to the years of trench warfare on the Western Front that made World War I a cataclysm unlike any seen before.
The present is the kind of extraordinary state-of-the-art computer-generated special effects typically used to make
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