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Article: The Great War.
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- Newsweek
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- November 11, 1996
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An absorbing PBS documentary chronicles the awful legacy of WWI
WHO HEMEMBERS WORLD WAR I? Old men. Academics. Maybe a lit major devouring Hemingway. Because so few recent movies have grappled with the subject--"All Quiet on the Western Front," "Paths of Glory," "Gallipoli"--the visual imprint of WWI has been overshadowed in our collective memory by World War II, Vietnam and the cold war. And to schoolchildren, the events of 1914-18 must seem like ancient history.
The Great War (PBS, Nov. 11-13) wants to change all that. This literate, absorbing eight-hour documentary--the best of its kind since "The Civil War"--is a chronicle of both that distant era ...