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Remembrance

'For The Wounded' Courtesy of the BFI National Archive


There are very few people left who can remember the end of World War One first hand. But ninety years on many peoples' lives are still affected by the war which was meant to 'end all wars'.

This series of Video Nation films take a personal look at some of the ways people have been touched by the Great War.

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06 Nov 2008
LOVE LETTERS
Angela Clare
2.30 mins
Angela's heart was touched by a couples' love letters exchanged during the First World War which she came across at work.



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04 Nov 2008
WALKING THROUGH HISTORY
Ashley and Ste
1.13 mins
Ashley and Ste had an emotional experience when they went on a school trip to the World War One killing fields of northern France.




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06 Nov 2008
REMEMBERING A HERO
Jaimal Singh Johol
2.46 mins
Jaimal's Grandfather, Mansa was one of many Sikh and Hindu soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War.



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04 Nov 2008
RAPPEL
Jamie Winchester and Gareth Leaman
3.01 mins
Two young rappers have come together to tell the story of young Billy, a teenager conscripted in 1916 to go and fight in WW1.




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06 Nov 2008
MY RIVER
Llandogo Primary School
4.16 mins
Young children from a Monmouthshire primary school remember their relatives who fought in WW1 and celebrate change.



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04 Nov 2008
JUST SIX
Winnie Sevier
2.24 mins
Winnie was just six when World War One broke out 90 years ago, but at a hundred her memories of the time are still very vivid.




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06 Nov 2008
REMEMBERING MONTY
Sam and Megan
2.19 mins
Sam and Megan tell the story of a Kent soldier who lost his life in WWI.



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04 Nov 2008
REMEMBERING ALBERT
Lester Simpson
3.32 mins
Folk musician Lester reflects on the human cost of The Great War.




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16 Nov 2008
LOOKING FOR ASHLEY
Katy
2.08 mins
Katy has been searching for one of her relatives who was killed in the Battle of the Somme.



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04 Nov 2008
LIVERPOOL HEROES
Bill Sergeant
2.46 mins
Bill talks about the memorial for the men who were awarded the Victoria Cross in Liverpool.




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06 Nov 2008
I REMEMBER
Allan Mott
2.38 mins
Allan comprehends the experiences of The First World War through his grandfather's poems.



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04 Dec 2007
FALLING LEAVES
Richard Gill
2.58 mins
Richard remembers his own family's connections with World War One on its 90th anniversary.




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03 Nov 2008
MEMORIES FROM WAZIRISTAN
Tim for CJ Lane
2.50 mins
Tim brings to life a little known WWI campaign involving the British forces in Afghanistan through the letters of his great granddad.



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04 Nov 2008
PORTUGUESE FIREPLACE
Richard Reeves
2.10 mins
Richard goes in search of First World War remains in the heart of the New Forest.




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03 Nov 2008
JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Duane Phillips
3.03 mins
Duane is compiling a book which tells the story of his great grandfather who was lost in action in 1918.



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04 Nov 2008
MONTY'S STRIPES
Peter Daniel
3.05 mins
With the power of the archives Peter has solved the mystery of Monty's lost stripes.




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03 Nov 2008
HAWKSHAW HEROES
Jonathan Ali
3.30 mins
When Jonathan found out that forty men in his village alone were lost to the Great War, he decided to bring their memories back to life.



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04 Nov 2008
EVERY GRAVE'S GOT A STORY
Ian Winter
2.59 mins
As a Falkland veteran Ian is well aware of the horrors of war and he reflects on what life must have been like for soldiers in the trenches.




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08 Jan 2007
OUR JIMMY
John Battye
2.38 mins
John didn't realise how difficult it would be to find out about his Great Uncle who died in the trenches in 1917.



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04 Nov 2008
WALTER'S POPPY FACTORY
Walter Keer
3.11 mins
Walter is a war veteran just like his father before him. But he feels that today’s veterans are a lot better taken care of then in his parent’s generation.




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06 Nov 2008
SONGS FOR THE FALLEN
Jonathan
2.56 mins
Jonathan's visit to the First World War battlefields inspired him to write a piece of music for his GCSEs.



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04 Nov 2008
FIRST TANK
Chris Copson
2.15 mins
Chris imagines what life must have been like for the pioneers of tanks during The Great War.





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