Timewatch - The Last Day of World War One (1 November 2008) PDTV (XviD)

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Timewatch -- The Last Day of World War One

Saturday 1 November 2008
8:15pm - 9:15pm
BBC Two


Shown as part of the BBC's Ninety Years Of Remembrance series.

The treaty that ended the First World War was signed just after 5am on 11 November, 1918.
But those involved decided that the fighting would stop at 11am to allow news of the Armistice
to spread to all the troops.

In an affecting documentary, Michael Palin looks at the lives claimed during those last remaining
hours when the war was technically over but when, in pockets of conflict throughout France,
the killing sporadically continued.

The last British soldier to die, George Edwin Ellison from Leeds, was killed just 90 minutes before
Armistice was declared. The last US soldier fell at 10.59am.

Palin speaks to historians about these few, final, bloody hours, and touchingly takes Ellison's
granddaughters to visit their grandfather's grave in a war cemetery, where they lay flowers.
They note that it is the first time any family member has visited this immensely sad spot.



Filesize....... : 460.35 MB (471,394 KB) (482,707,456 bytes)
Runtime...... : 0:58:54.60 (88,365 frames)
Video Codec : XviD 1.1.3
Video Bitrate : 955 kb/s
frame size... : 608x336 (1.81:1)
Audio Codec : MP3 (LAME 3.97)
Audio Bitrate : 128 kb/s CBR
Sample Rate : 48 kHz, joint stereo

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