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About The Great War: The People's Story

The Great War: The People's Story is a drama and documentary TV series that premiered on ITV1 on August 10, 2014. It has 1 season and 4 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 4, aired on August 31, 2014.

Through original diaries, letters, and memoirs, this unforgettable documentary tells how the lives of regular British men and women were transformed by the Great War.

  • Drama
  • Documentary

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Episodes

4 episodes · 1 season

Miniseries

2014 · 4 episodes · Last episode: 12 years ago

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    4. Episode 4

    Finale

    In 1917, the war is in its darkest phase. Everyone knows victory can only come at a long, slow, and painful cost. So many lives have been lost that now men previously exempted from military service – because of their age or because their jobs were considered vital to the war effort – are called up. We hear the stories of three of them: the black Glasgow shipbuilder Arthur Roberts, sent into the Battle of Passchendaele; Duff Cooper, the dashing and debonair lover of Lady Diana Manners, the daughter of the Duke of Rutland; and Londoner Ted Poole, just 18 and the last of his fathers’ sons left alive.

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    3. Episode 3

    The focus shifts to a changing Britain, and the lives of those left behind at home. Helen Bentwich, a clever young woman who chafed against the restrictions placed on her sex – and seized the chance to work in the arms factories at Woolwich Arsenal, before becoming appalled by the conditions there and joining a trade union. The funny diary of country vicar Andrew Clark is marked by increasing sadness as more and more men leave his village for war, never to return. The fighting is entering its darkest phase – with all hopes for a quick end dashed – but still life and love goes on… Emily Chitticks, a servant girl, falls in love with Will Martin, a soldier at a local barracks. But soon the call will come for him to go to France too…

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    2. Episode 2

    The real-life stories of Reg Evans, shot in the face in the trenches, as he undergoes pioneering plastic surgery – and of Alan Lloyd, who has swapped life with his new wife and baby son for the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. But it also explores war on the Home Front – through the diaries of fashionable celebrity cook and restaurateur Hallie Miles and suffragette Kate Parry Frye, as they see the old Edwardian world crumble around them, opening up ever more opportunities for women, as ever more men – including their own loved ones – and sent to fight and die at the Front.

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    1. Episode 1

    As war breaks out, the journey of Reg Evans, a cockney lad and one of the first to volunteer to fight, is told told through moving letters to his anxious mother at home. The letters of Alan Lloyd, an upper-crust young man from Birmingham who joined the army in the same month he was married, to his new wife from the battlefields of Ypres reveal the shock of a generation of young men coming to terms with a war more terrible than anyone had foreseen. Dorothy Lawrence was determined to find a part she could play in the war… and who set off on her own to the trenches, undercover as a war correspondent. James Butlin, a young Oxford University student, whose letters indicate initial positivity on joining the conflict disintegrating into despair as the reality of trench warfare takes its toll.

Cast & crew

  • Daniel Mays

    Daniel Mays

    Reg Evans

  • Matthew McNulty

    Matthew McNulty

    Alan Lloyd

  • MyAnna Buring

    MyAnna Buring

    Dorothy Lawrence

  • Adam Byron

    James Butlin

  • Lily Loveless

    Lily Loveless

    Dorothy Lloyd

  • Rosalind March

    Rosalind March

    Frances Evans

  • Adrian Scarborough

    Adrian Scarborough

    Winston Churchill

  • Alison Steadman

    Alison Steadman

    Hallie Eustace Miles

  • Jo Stone-Fewings

    Jo Stone-Fewings

    Harold Gillies

  • Tom Turner

    Tom Turner

    John Collins

  • Jonathan Bullock

    Jack Sweeney

  • Brian Cox

    Brian Cox

    Rev. Andrew Clark

  • Claire Foy

    Claire Foy

    Helen Bentwich

  • Amy Morgan

    Amy Morgan

    Emily Chitticks

  • James Norton

    James Norton

    Will Martin

  • Henry Lloyd-Hughes

    Henry Lloyd-Hughes

    Duff Cooper

The Great War: The People's Story FAQ

Will there be new episodes of The Great War: The People's Story?

The Great War: The People's Story has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on August 31, 2014.

When did the latest episode of The Great War: The People's Story come out?

The most recent episode of The Great War: The People's Story, Season 1 Episode 4, aired on August 31, 2014.

How many seasons of The Great War: The People's Story are there?

The Great War: The People's Story has 1 season with 4 episodes in total.

When did The Great War: The People's Story first air?

The Great War: The People's Story first aired on ITV1 on August 10, 2014.

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