They Shall Not Grow Old – New Trailer – Now Playing In Theaters

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a way to see WWI footage restored so the war feels modern and real.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Warner Bros.

Topic

world war i restored footage

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• For anyone that hasn't seen They Shall Not Grow Old, I highly recommend it. Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) spent years working with the British government to digitize and colorize their old footage of World War I. They also added in sound …

• A bit off topic, but I recommend that anyone interested in this watch They Shall Not Grow Old ( [VIDEO] ) - it's an excellent documentary, a bit of a passion project by Peter Jackson to polish up a lot of old WW1 footage (normalized …

• If this interests you then you might like to check out “They Shall Not Grow Old”[0] - a Peter Jackson movie which is based off AI/ML restored[1] WW1 footage with color, sound, and dialog added to silent B&W original stock. [0]: [LINK] [1]: [VIDEO]