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The Somme – From Defeat To Victory
''The Somme – From Defeat to Victory'' is a 2006 BBC documentary film made to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Production The film was produced in conjunction with the Open University and was intended to go beyond the standard histories that end with the British defeat at the end of the first day to demonstrate how the British learnt from their failures and developed radical new tactics that would help the allies to win the war. The film mixes dramatic re-enactments and archive footage augmented by readings from the diaries, letters and reports of the men involved. Plot The 16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Salford), Lancashire Fusiliers was one of the Pals battalions that had been created to allow friends and colleagues to fight together. On 21 June 1916, Cpl. Stephen Sharples quells the fears of Pte. Walter Fiddes and best friend L/Cpl. Thomas Mellor that the war would be over before they could see action with the announcement that their battalion wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlef Siebert
Detlef Siebert is a German television writer, director and producer, working in the United Kingdom. Biography Siebert began his career at the BBC as assistant producer of the 1997 documentary series '' The Nazis: A Warning from History''. He wrote, directed and produced the 2001 ''Bombing Germany'' episode of the ''Timewatch'' series. He also directed the drama sequences in the 2005 series '' Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution''', wrote, directed and produced the 2006 drama documentary ''The Somme – From Defeat to Victory'', and produced the 2006 series '' Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial'', produced the 2011 docudrama '' Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend''. In the 2014 BBC Two documentary, ''I Was There: The Great War Interviews'', Siebert used interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War filmed by the BBC in the 1960s. Most of the interview material in the film had never been shown and the film garnered critical acclaim. Filmography * 1994 ''Dichter, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morland
General Sir Thomas Lethbridge Napier Morland, (9 August 1865 – 21 May 1925) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War. Early life Born in Montreal, Canada East, Morland was the son of Thomas Morland and Helen Servante. Educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Morland was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in August 1884. Military career He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1891 to 1892. In February 1895 he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Sir Arthur Lyon Fremantle. Service in West Africa Morland, who in July 1899 was promoted to brevet major, later served in Nigeria, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel and being appointed commanding officer of the West African Field Force in 1900. The following year, after being promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in January 1901, he was in command of an expedition to Yola, leading to the defeat and deposition of the Emir of Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Docudramas
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Shop ...
BBC Shop is an online retailer owned by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC and operating in the US & Canada. It sells BBC Studios published products, and selected BBC-related products published by third parties, including DVDs, books, audiobooks, toys and clothing. It is self-funded and returns profits to the BBC to be reinvested in programmes and services. Following the launch oBBC Store a service that offers UK residents the opportunity to purchase, stream and download BBC programmes, the UK's physical anonline shop closed on 29 March 2016. However, the online shop in the US and Canada is still fully operating. See also * BBC Store References External links BBC Shop US & Canada {{BBC Shop Shop or shopping may refer to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop * Reta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Video
2 Entertain Video Limited, trading as BBC Studios Home Entertainment, is a British video and music publisher founded in 2004 following the merger of BBC Video and Video Collection International by BBC Worldwide and the Woolworths (United Kingdom), Woolworths Group respectively. History BBC Video BBC Video was established in 1980 as a division of BBC Enterprises (later BBC Worldwide) with John Ross Barnard at the head, just as home video systems were starting to gain ground. At launch, the BBC had no agreement with British talent unions such as Equity (trade union), Equity or the Musicians' Union (UK), Musician's Union (MU), so BBC Video was limited in the television programming it could release. Initially, video cassette and laserdisc releases were either programmes with no Equity or MU involvement, such as natural history and other documentaries, or material licensed from third parties, including feature films such as ''High Noon'' and the first video release of Deep Purple' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Goddard
Ben Goddard (October 17, 1942 – June 15, 2018) was a political consultant and founding partner of First Tuesday, Goddard Claussen, Goddard Global, and Goddard Gunster. He is widely regarded as the godfather of issue advocacy advertising and is credited with creating the genre of national issue advocacy advertising with the Harry & Louise campaign, paid for by private health insurance companies to help defeat the Clinton health care plan of 1993. Career and accomplishments He was president of the International Association of Political Consultants, and was a featured columnist in '' The Hill'' newspaper, providing reviews and comments on campaign messages and strategies. Notable Goddard campaigns include Harry & Louise, the Pacific Life Whales, and Prop 187 in California. According to the Goddard Gunster website, Goddard has received dozens of awards for creativity, including a television Emmy, and his commercials are part of the Smithsonian Institution permanent collection. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Turner (actor)
Martin Turner (born September 1950) is an English stage and television actor. Early life Turner was born in Hong Kong. In the 1970s he was a member of the Inter-Action Community Arts Trust founded by E. D. Berman, before deciding to train as an actor at the Drama Centre, London, under Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes. Career Theatre On the West End stage, he played Juror 11 in ''Twelve Angry Men'' at the Garrick Theatre. In 2019, he played the Doctor in Florian Zeller's ''The Son'' at The Duke of York's Theatre. Television His featured roles on television include portraying Lord Chamberlain in ''The Crown The Crown is a political concept used in Commonwealth realms. Depending on the context used, it generally refers to the entirety of the State (polity), state (or in federal realms, the relevant level of government in that state), the executive ...''. and References External links * Living people English male stage actors 1950 births English male telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt
Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt is a Germans, German film and theatre actor and director. Life Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt was born in Hamburg, Nazi Germany, Germany, on 20 November 1942. After high school, he studied performing arts at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (University of Music and Theatre Hamburg). Kuhlbrodt joined the Stadttheater Pforzheim and the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, later the Theater Lübeck and the Städtische Bühnen Münster, and in 1975, the Schauspielhaus Bochum. After a creative break that he spent in California, Kuhlbrodt with other artists established in 1980 an alternative theater project in the former Atlantic Movie Theatre in Düsseldorf. With various projects he toured throughout West German correction institutions and other theater-distant social facilities. In 1983, he was appointed a senior director at the Westfälisches Landestheater. In 1986, he was selected by Peter Zadek to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. After a stint at the Theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiepval Memorial To The Missing Of The Somme
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. A visitors' centre opened in 2004. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century". Location The Memorial was built approximately to the south-east of the former Thiepval Château, which was located on lower ground, by the side of Thiepval Wood. The grounds of the original château were not chosen as this would have required the moving of graves, dug during the war around the numerous medical aid stations. Design and inauguration Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing in the world. It was inaugurated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Jeremiah Edwards
Frederick Jeremiah Edwards (3 October 1894 – 9 March 1964) was an Irish people, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom, British and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth forces. Biography Edwards was born in Queenstown (now named Cobh), County Cork, Ireland. As a boy he attended the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin. He was 21 years old, and a Private (rank), private in the 12th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), British Army during the First World War, and was awarded the VC for his deeds on 26 September 1916 in the Battle of Thiepval Ridge at Thiepval, France: part of the line was held up by machine-gun fire and all the officers had become casualties. There was confusion and indication of retirement. Private Edwards, grasping the situation and on his own initiative, dashed out towards the gun, which he knocked out with his bom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Von Plessen
Hans Georg Hermann von Plessen (26 November 1841 – 28 January 1929) was a Prussian Colonel General with the rank of Generalfeldmarschall and Canon of Brandenburg. He held the office of His Majesty's Orderly Adjutant General () to Kaiser Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as th ..., thus making him one of the Emperor's closest confidants. During World War I he simultaneously served as Commandant of the Imperial Grand Headquarters.M. Naumann: ''Die Plessen. Stammfolge vom XIII. bis XX. Jahrhundert''. Limburg an der Lahn: Starke Verlag, 1971] By 1918, he was the oldest serving officer in the Imperial German Army, although Paul von Hindenburg falsely claimed this for himself. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
