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- 2018
- R
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 39 m
- 2018
- R
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage which is more than a 100-years old, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who were there. Driven by a personal interest in the First World War, Jackson set out to bring to life the day-to-day experience of its soldiers. After months ...
Directed By: Peter Jackson
- 2018
- R
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 39 m
- 2018
- R
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 39 m
They Shall Not Grow Old
8.5
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Summary Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage which is more than a 100-years old, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who were there. Driven by a personal interest in the First World War, Jackson set out to bring to life the day-to-day experience of its soldiers. After months ...
Directed By: Peter Jackson
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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But it would be a mistake to leave the impression that the rewards of They Shall Not Grow Old are in any way akin to that of the usual BBC historical documentary. There is some overlap, to be sure, but by and large this Peter Jackson film does not offer a historical encounter, so much as an encounter of humanity, a psychic linking of hands across time.
I’ve often argued that cinema is a time machine, but rarely has that seemed so true.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 99 User Ratings
8.5
90% Positive
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 99 User Ratings
8.5
90% Positive
89 Ratings
89 Ratings
8% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
2% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
The moment the footage became larger and the moment the footage become colorized, that's the moment i was so impressed, so speechless, so shock on how amazing and how incredible a 100 years footage can be so smooth, so beautiful, so good, so amazing, They Shall Not Grow Old was a depressing yet incredible experience from Peter Jackson's and it's definitely one of the best documentary movie i've ever watch.
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By applying cutting-edge restoration techniques to footage shot at the time, Jackson has crafted an historical portrait of matchless immediacy and power, in which young souls lost in a century-old war stare out across the years and meet our gaze.
if They Shall Not Grow Old is head-spinning for its jolting animation of creakily shot battle scenes — tricked out with ingeniously integrated sound editing and seamlessly retimed from 13 frames a second to 24 — its greatest revelation isn’t one of sound and fury. Rather, it’s the film’s faces that stick longest in the mind.
They Shall Not Grow Old isn’t just a compelling motion picture; it’s an important slice of cinema.
The film works best in its most acutely observed details of daily life in the trenches.
It is immersive, letting us hear and feel the concussion of artillery, if not whistling hail of bullets and the desperation and fury of hand to hand combat.
Can't give this anything below a 10 - of course it doesn't show everything what happened in the war or whatever, but I can just imagine what work was put into it to show the colorized videos and narrative and to make you feel like you were there almost when listening to the stories. Very good documentary
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Noble high concept technical challenge for the sake of historical document, this plays more as simply that than an involving documentary feature. As is the dumb trend now with anything remotely resembling the documentary form, this thing is a non-stop run on verbal barrage with no sense of cadence or breathing room causing the viewer to glaze over, which is inexcusable given Jackson's stature and experience! Then again this is the moviemaker whose trademark is overblown, way overlong, bloated, more is less flicks ruined by such in their effectiveness and he still doesn't get it.
You're better off catching some colorized WWI TV docs on The History Channel. For that matter the touted restored, colorized, speed adjusted image here has a phony digitized compressed look with contours swimming and wavering in digital artifacting throughout. It doesn't even look very good on the big screen.
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Points for all the hard work for the technological achievement. However, many of the scenes are repeated several times under a voice over of witness accounts that are nothing new. Got bored really fast. Could and should have been cut to half the time.
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Production Company
House Productions,
Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London,
WingNut Films
Release Date Dec 17, 2018
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A ground-breaking documentary...
Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
