Britain’s Great War
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- Episode
- Episode 2 - The War Machine
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (58 mins)
- Description
- In the second part of his landmark series on how the First World War affected the lives of the British people - and created what we know as modern Britain - Jeremy Paxman describes the crisis facing the country as it becomes clear it is fatally unprepared to fight a modern industrial war. Now the whole population is enlisted to turn the country into a war machine: women fill the factories to make bombs and bullets, men are forced to fight at the Front, conscientious objectors are threatened with the firing squad, striking shipbuilders with jail. Even the beer is watered on government orders. Britain is having to learn to do as it is told.
- Genre
- History; Philosophy and Ethics; Social Science
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Britain’s Great War". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/85187 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)