A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
Direction
Jackson's obsessive restoration brings ghosts to breathing life.
Sound
Lip-read dialogue and ambient trench audio is devastatingly immersive.
Editing
Seamless 100-year-old footage integration feels like time travel.
Director
Peter Jackson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jackson's team hand-colorized every frame and used forensic lip-readers to reconstruct dialogue the soldiers were actually saying.
The title comes from Laurence Binyon's 1914 poem, written before he knew how many would die—Jackson uses it to haunt the living, not honor the dead.
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