Shooting the War

How WW2 was documented by home movie makers. A look at the films of four fighting men - Britons Derek Brown and Leslie Fowler and Germans Paul Kellermann and Klaus Eismann.

This programme is about the experience of children during the war, seen through the films of them shot by parents, friends and teachers. The films, and the recollections of the children in them, capture the initial novelty of war, but also the later reality of death and loss.

Women who were drawn into the war were workers, mothers and combatants for the first time in history and those experiences were filmed, sometimes by women themselves.