Archive footage of the first world war has been restored and colourised for a new Peter Jackson film to be shown on the BBC and distributed to every secondary school in the UK.
The project was announced at the launch on Monday of a nationwide cultural programme marking the centenary of the final year of the war.
“We can make this grainy, flickery, sped-up footage look like it was shot in the last week or two,” he said.
The Imperial War Museum first approached the director two years ago about doing something with its footage.