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    'They Shall Not Grow Old': World War I Brought To Astonishing, Harrowing Life

    Peter Jackson's documentary, featuring expertly restored archival footage from the first World War, is "astonishing"; his "digital tools summon empathy, not spectacle."
    by Chris Klimek Jan 10, 2019 2 minutes
    Peter Jackson restores archival footage of British soldiers enjoying a meal in the documentary <em>They Shall Not Grow Old</em>.

    In the closing moments of They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson's impressionistic documentary — no dates, no title cards, no omniscient narrator — about the foot soldier's experience of the sadly misnamed War to End All Wars, we hear one veteran recall that upon their return to England their wartime experience "had no conversational value at all."

    Another says, "My

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