[tjhendry]

Maybe this film has already screened near you.  I finally saw it during its third week at independent art-house here in SC.

Peter Jackson was given access to century-old films in Britain's Imperial war Museum and asked to make a film about the "Great War".  His team cleaned them, tweaked the images' exposure and sharpness, colorized them and re-timed them so that hand-cranked films looked natural.

The soundtrack is a voice-over collage of old BBC interviews so it is men who were in the trenches on the Western Front telling their stories.  Lip-readers must have been used to add voice to the men seen on screen.  Even the music they made comes back to life.  Technically, the film is the marvel you would expect from Jackson.

Nearly a million British soldiers were killed in the "Great War", another 1,600,000 were wounded.  Some lessons must be hard to learn...if you are ever in New Orleans visit the National WWII Museum.  In the meantime, consider seeing this film.

[EkW]

I saw it in a theater in December, in 3D n less. Great movie, and the ' making of' film is good too. The miracle of modern video processing turned over- and underexposed footage onto useful footage.
Playback at the right frame rate was a big plus. I havenever understood why films shot at under 24 fps are routinely played at 24 fps.

[geowak]

I had just seen this movie about 1 month ago. I though the movie was very well done and being a veteran myself I could empathize with many things the soldiers experienced, although those vets endured tremendous hardships of which I did not. I liked the fact that the soldiers were portrayed equally among nations... and that they ALL were just boys and men trying to do their best for their own country.