The Great War
t took just nine months for the BBC to conceive and produce one of the most significant documentary series in. Running for twenty-six, forty-minute editions, the BBC Handbook for 1965 claimed that ‘the series will ultimately be seen by every television country in the world’. was highly acclaimed at the time, and set the standard for subsequent documentaries on the subject, most notably Thames Television’s of 1973 which approached World War II on a similar scale.