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Lost Films of WWII

All Episodes 2019

  • 2018-01-11T21:00:00Zs at 2018-01-11T21:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 2019-09-05T20:00:00Z
  • 59m
  • 1h 58m (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • IWC Media
  • Documentary, War
The story of what it felt like to live in Britain during World War II, told through the eyewitness accounts and cine films of ordinary people.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2019-09-05T20:00:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2019-09-05T20:00:00Z59m

Rediscovered and shown together for the first time, old cine films are interwoven with testimony from both members of the film-makers’ families and those who lived through the war to give a first-hand account of life during conflict.

Season Finale

2019-09-12T20:00:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

Season Finale

1x02 Episode 2

  • 2019-09-12T20:00:00Z59m

These lost films are a striking reminder of Britain in a different era. With much of the footage in colour, the past leaps to life with immediacy and reveals how world events impacted on the individual at home as well as in action.

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