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Games on the Battlefield
Anne BettenfeldChristophe Duchiron

Games on the Battlefield

  • Documentary
  • War
RELEASE

2015-01-01

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

54 min

Description

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.