The Devil Dogs: Hero Marines of WWI

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War Documentary hosted by Dominique Reymond, published by France Televisions in 2017 - English narration

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In June 1918, the US Marines Devil Dogs stopped the Germans at Belleau Wood, France, only a few miles from Paris, making ultimate victory possible. The Devil Dogs is a documentary film about remembrance and the different forms it can assume. The remembrance of a battle, the Battle of Belleau Wood and of the American Marines who came to France in 1918 to fight for freedom, costing the lives of over 7000 souls. This battle remains a founding element in the history of the Marine Corps, nicknamed "Teufelhund" or "Devil Dogs" by the Germans, for their courage and persistence in battle. It is a film about a person willing to pass on the memory of these terrible times. The film follows an American family's pilgrimage as it retraces the steps of an ancestor who fought with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Division during the Battle of Belleau Wood. The family's guide on their pilgrimage is Frenchman Gilles Lagin, who has a consuming passion for this historic battle that originated during a childhood spent roaming the land where it took place. Gilles was made an honorary Marine in 2008 in recognition of the lifetime of memories and research he shares with American families whose search for their roots brings to the World War I battlefields of France. We follow these families through the seasons and between France and the U.S. on a shared quest to keep the passage of time from effacing the memory of men who left their homes across the Atlantic to sacrifice their lives for liberty. Stories and memories from both sides of the Atlantic accompany the pilgrims weaving themselves into the quest as they retrace the paths of the "Devil Dogs". Contemporary images and documents are also woven into the family pilgrimage to gradually reconstruct the lost memory of the Marines' 1918 experience. For everyone—the family, the guide, and even the land—this trip is an occasion to relive a page of shared history. Together, the film's participants gather and contemplate their shared memory and heritage. The memory of those terrible hours bridges the distance between them and lets them celebrate a human exchange that only peace today makes possible. The centenary of World War I is an opportunity to get together, look back and remember what this War was. While the last voices have died but scars remain, we must remember the trenches, shellfire, our men hidden, frightened and suddenly running to attack the enemy hand to hand. Behind a curtain of smoke, bayonet in one hand and a picture of a loved woman in the other, fear in the gut always. Mordant. Modern. There is a before and after, every Frenchman and Frenchwoman today knows it; every family carries the memory of the War in its ramifications. A hundred years, it seems like yesterday and forever at once. Events still so close to us we can still see the stigmata in the French countryside and beyond, today in the European Union. Recent events in France remind us of the incredible proximity of war. What does it mean to fight for an idea? What does it mean to die for an idea? The documentary looks how remembrance of the Great War lives on today, through the portraits of both an American family and a passionate historian of war battlefields. It investigates how, a hundred years later, this issue continues to weave a strong friendship between two Nations, and asks a question that is strangely contemporary: what does it mean to fight for one's values, to die for freedom? Written & Directed by Laura Froidefond and Antoine Favre ; A Co-Production by Program33 and France 3 with CNC and TV5 Monde

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 3 252 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 112 kb/s VBR 44.1 kHz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 52 min 38 s
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 1.23 GB
Source: WEB DL
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