Of course it is

Lucas Films has been putting stuff out like this for awhile based initially on George Lucas's marketing angle for the young Indiana Jones series but later as a general educational tool.

I have watched and enjoyed a lot of them. The ancient philosophers short film was really good.

Just finished watching the WW1 video and agree it is good.
It is like a novel, which should help to interest children,
but leaving out some of the worst stuff (like poison gas)
also commends it for possible grade school use.

Thanks to Young Indy!

This is good stuff. If anyone here has not read Barbara Tuchman's "Guns of August" please buy it and read it. One of the best history books I've ever read. The history is good and it reads like a page-turning novel. Good stuff. I read it on a train from Strasbourg to Holland in 1995, and could see the pillboxes from the Maginot Line outside my window from time to time.

JABQ04 said:

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Thanks to Young Indy!

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I am not sure why I was so slow to develop an interest in the Great War, perhaps because my dad and so many of his friends had fought in WWII and it was more recent having ended not too many years before I was born. And there were two theatres to deal with. I did find a helmet in an old abandoned shed/barn from WWI.

I knew my paternal grandfather had been gassed in WWI, though I knew not where. I had seen his Purple Heart (nobody knows now where it is) and how different it was from my dad's. We went on tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, 38 in our group. It was led by Michael Hanlon who is quite an authority on that war. Though with a group that large the tour had a schedule, a lot of impromptu things occurred which made it all the more fun.

When we went on that tour, I had not researched much of my grandfather's service plus his records were some that were destroyed in the St. Louis fire in 1973. The research was confusing in that he left with one division but came home with another. Plus our surname has been spelled five different ways, one family alone spelled it four different ways. It was hard to piece together. I have since done a lot of research. I am thinking about going on another tour this fall with the same company, different tour guide because Hanlon has retired.

aalan94 said:

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This is good stuff. If anyone here has not read Barbara Tuchman's "Guns of August" please buy it and read it. One of the best history books I've ever read. The history is good and it reads like a page-turning novel. Good stuff. I read it on a train from Strasbourg to Holland in 1995, and could see the pillboxes from the Maginot Line outside my window from time to time.

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Tuchman's Guns of August is a classic. It was my entry into reading about the 'Great War'.

But I like Neiberg's, "Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of War in 1914" better for the history