For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe's western and eastern fronts after assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited the war. Along the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, the savage combat on the Western Front in France and Belgium came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare. The great set-piece battles of the World War One - Gallipoli, the Somme and Messines/Passchendaele - are explored in this landmark series which combines unique archive footage with carefully researched location photography, transporting the viewer back to the exact spot where so many momentous events occurred. Producer & Director: Ed Skelding ; Produced by ESP for Tyne Tees Television -- The last 3rd episode "Ypres: The Salient" includes 'Director's Extra' bonus chapter(7:51 min) --
Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4 Video Bitrate: 2 248 Kbps Video Resolution: 720x552 Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps Audio Codec: AC3 Audio Bitrate: 224 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz Audio Streams: 2 Audio Languages: english RunTime Per Part: 47 min 19 s - 54 min 53 s Number Of Parts: 3 Part Size: 868 MB - 920 MB Source: DVD Encoded by: DocFreak08