
Timewatch
The Boer War: The First Media War
TV-PG
S16 • E4 Mar 17, 1997 50mThe Boer War of 1899-1902 saw correspondents and cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time. Diaries, memoirs, photographs and films form part of an examination of the media's role in a conflict that saw young journalists Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and writer Edgar Wallace make their names.