To mark the ninetieth anniversary of the end of World War One in November 2008, the History Channel will be broadcasting brand new series 'Last Voices of the Great War.' 

The six part installment, made by Testimony Films for the History Channel, draws on a unique collection of a hundred filmed interviews with veterans. Their stories are vividly illustrated throughout, with original black and white archive, personal photographs and high quality colour dramatisation. The result is a deeply moving account of the British experience during arguably the most traumatic war in modern history, a war which cost the nation three quarters of a million lives.

At the heart of ‘Last Voices' is the powerful first person testimony of the Western Front and the Home Front in Britain. We see and hear vivid stories from soldiers, sailors, airmen, POWs, the wounded, nurses, munitions workers, sweethearts and children. Their experience provides a unique insight into the extraordinary twists and turns of the war, as the euphoria of 1914 turned into a grim struggle for survival by 1918.

To make ‘Last Voices’, Testimony Films spent over ten years recording a series of remarkable interviews with the last surviving veterans of the Great War. Sadly, these extraordinary people have since died. This series is a fitting and deeply moving tribute to their experience, their service, their heroism and their loss.

The ambition of this show is to create a lasting memorial to those who lived through the war years.  With its in-depth and wide ranging oral history of the British experience of the First World War, it will represent a landmark series of one of the most fascinating - and horrific - periods in modern World history.

For a unique opportunity to view some of the exciting material from the show, click on the clips above.