Games on the Battlefield

Games on the Battlefield

54 mins | Documentary, War | Jan. 1, 2015

Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War -- popular participation in sports, once the realm of the elite. For four years, sport represented a welcome respite from the killing fields of Europe.

Games on the Battlefield

54 mins | Documentary, War | Jan. 1, 2015

Games on the Battlefield
Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War -- popular participation in sports, once the realm of the elite. For four years, sport represented a welcome respite from the killing fields of Europe.
Producers Gaumont-Pathe Archives, ECPAD
Original title Games on the Battlefield
Directors Christophe Duchiron, Anne Bettenfeld
Writers Anne Bettenfeld, Christophe Duchiron, Michel Merckel

Cast

Kester Lovelace

as Narrator

Nicolas Medad

as Narrator