14 Diaries of the Great War

14 Diaries of the Great War titled Great War Diaries when aired on the BBC is a 2014 international documentary drama series about World War I. It uses a mix of acted scenes, archive footage, and animation. All episodes were directed by Jan Peter, series authors were Jan Peter and Yury Winterberg. In a dramatic advisory capacity, Dutch producer and screenwriter Maarten van der Duin and BBCauthor Andrew Bampfield worked on the films development. The series is based on an idea by Gunnar Dedio, producer at the film company LOOKS Leipzig and Ulrike Dotzer, the Head of Department ARTE at Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

The series was produced by LOOKS Film Leipzig, Les Films dici Paris und Filmoption International Montreal.The scripts are based on quotes from diaries and letters from men and women who experienced World War I in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, AustriaHungary, Russia and the United States, who wrote during the period from 1914 to 1918. More than 1,000 journals and collections of letters were examined andmoving stories of World War I were selected from this compilation. Overall, the selection of the diaries and subsequent development work took four years. ........

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