Timewatch
Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme
TV-PG
S10 • E11 Oct 29, 1991 50mIn the first of two programmes about the First World War, German writer Ludwig Harig makes a pilgrimage to the Somme, hoping to understand why his father was unable to speak about the war. Archive film and the moving testimony of witnesses evoke the realities of life behind the Front. And in France, he finds a generation still haunted by their memories.