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First Day
Title
First Day / BBC.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC, [2016]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (50 min., 42 sec)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally released by BBC, 2016.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 25, 2017.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Historian Peter Barton explores the events leading up to and on the bloody first day of the offensive. Walking the battlefield, he explains the failures that led to over 20,000 British deaths and argues that to get a better understanding of events, one should not only confront what the British did badly but what their enemy did better. Based on research in German archives, Barton shows just how much they knew in advance about Allied plans through captured documents and interrogations of British prisoners and deserters.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
The Somme 1916: From Both Sides of the Wire
System details note
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 - 12, Academic/AP
Contents
The Somme 1916: Introduction (3:22); Severity of the Mission (4:23); British Strategy (7:06); Filming the Battle of Somme (8:01); Landscape of the Somme (3:34); Ulster Triumph (2:48); Mash Valley (6:00); Minor British Victories (3:59); Ulster Defeat (4:14); Surveying the Somme Day One (6:35); Credits: The Somme 1916 (0:33);
Videorecording number
138750 Infobase
[138749]s Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
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Infobase, film distributor.
BBC (Firm)
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