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| Title Statement | The Wipers Times [DVD] / BBC & Northern Ireland Screen present ; written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman ; produced by David Parfitt ; directed by Andy De Emmony. |
|---|---|
| Additional Contributors | De Emmony, Andy |
| Rhind-Tutt, Julian,1968- | |
| Chaplin, Ben | |
| Palin, Michael | |
| Publication | [Arlington, VA]: Distribued by PBS Distribution, [2014] |
| Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) |
| ISBN | 1627890319 (v.r.) 9781627890311 (v.r.) |
| Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 841887021371 |
| Other Number | 2632574 |
| General Notes | DVD. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 2013. Widescreen version. |
| Performance Credits | Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ben Chaplin, Michael Palin, Ben Daniels, Emilia Fox. |
| Audience & Ratings | "Not rated." |
| Languages | SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) |
| System Details | DVD, stereo. |
| Terms of Use | For home use only. |
| Summary | "Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times. Despite disapproval from officious Colonel Howfield but with backing from sympathetic General Mitford they produce twenty-three issues of a satirical magazine which boosts morale and even gets mentioned in the Tatler. The press is destroyed by a German shell but another is found and the paper's title changed to fit in with wherever the regiment is deployed"--www.imdb.com. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | World War, 1914-1918--Fiction |
| Soldiers--Fiction | |
| Newspaper publishing--Fiction | |
| By Location | Belgium--Fiction--History--German occupation, 1914-1918 |
| By Genre | War films |
| Historical films | |
| Biographical films | |
| Feature films | |
| Films for the hearing impaired | |
