The World at War 26, while the Dona nobis pacem (Latin for "Grant us peace") from the Missa Sancti Nicolai, composed by Joseph Haydn, can be heard. The series ends with Laurence Olivier saying "Remember". Some footage and interviews which were not used in the original series were later made into additional hour or half-hour documentaries narrated by Eric Porter. These were released as a bonus to the VHS version and are included in the DVD set of the series, first released in 2001. The original book "The World at War", which accompanied the series, was written by Mark Arnold-Forster in 1973. In October
The Great War (TV series) The Great War (TV series) The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The narrator was Michael Redgrave, with readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw and Emlyn Williams. Each episode is long. In August 1963, at the suggestion of Alasdair Milne, producer of the BBC's current affairs programme "Tonight", the BBC resolved to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War with