WW1 tunnels of death. Episode 1, The killing fields / produced and directed by John Hayes Fisher ; produced by 360 Production limited.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Fisher, John Hayes, director, producer.
• Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- narrator.
• 360 Production (Firm), production company.
• BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.

Series:

• Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Messines, Battle of, Belgium, 1917.
• World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Belgium.
• World War, 1914-1918--Trench warfare.
• Excavations (Archaeology)--Belgium.
• Mesen (Belgium)--History.

Genre:

• Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 minutes)

Other Title:

• World War One tunnels of death
• Killing fields

Place of Publication:

London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Messines is among World War One's most iconic and dramatic battlefields; now for the first time in almost a century, the secrets long buried under its scarred fields have been rediscovered, in the exciting and dramatic World War One's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig. Archaeologists have opened up a vast 1.5-mile trench straight through the battlefield on a scale of military excavation that comes up only once in a decade. Unearthing the fighting trenches, unexploded bombs and grenades and even the bodies of the men and horses who fought and died there, this extraordinary dig reveals a first hand insight into this pivotal battle of World War One.

Participant:

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Notes:

• Title from resource description page (viewed March 23, 2021).
• "The Big Dig."

OCLC:

1245589789