While I wouldn't say this show is on par with that series in terms of quality, it still has several important innovations. Believe it or not though, the series does actually have interviews with ww1 soldiers, but since it was made in 2003, they are all extremely old, and there aren't as many as on The Great War. Right off the bat, that gives the BBC series an edge over this one, because it uses firsthand information. I already reviewed the much acclaimed ww1 series "The Great War" which aired on BBC in the mid 60s, when many veterans of the war were still alive. Just like the series that came out a few years after this one (World War 2 in Color), this series chooses to forgo large levels of detail in favor of covering the most important aspects of the war instead. It's not just adaptations of works of literature he has been in though. Branagh has narrated many things that I can see Laurence being the narrator of, and the fact that both of them starred in movies based on Shakespeare's plays I feel is no coincidence. Kenneth Branagh can in many ways be considered the Laurence Olivier of our times, which might sound stupid since an actor of Olvier's calibur can never again be replicated, but I'm not kidding here.
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