THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD

Assembled from more than 100 hours of previously unseen World War 1 archive footage and painstakingly restored by the wizards at Weta in New Zealand, Peter Jackson’s vivid account of frontline warfare may be the most important documentary of the 21st Century. Focused exclusively on the soldiers’ experience, it presents the hardships and horrors of life in the trenches from a radical angle: for some survivors, the war was a positive experience. It’s limited in scope, but the hauntingly lifelike full-colour footage is the benchmark to which all future historical documents should aspire.