'They Shall Not Grow Old' review: Peter Jackson enlists in a World War I digital restoration
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jan 31, 2019
3 minutes
A relentless technical wonder, director Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" leaps well past a straightforward digital restoration of century-old pieces of film, shot on the Western front in World War I, into a realm of creative license and dramatic amplification relatively new to historical documentaries.
The History Channel, among many others, has dabbled in similar realms of juiced-up sound effects and newly recorded voices, giving voice to
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