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The Great War: Episode 8: Why Don't You Come and Help?

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Episode 8: Why Don't You Come and Help?

Why Don't You Come and Help?

BBC Two - The Great War, Why Don't You Come and Help?

With the help of American equipment, Lloyd George was able to modernise British industry.

Classic 1964 BBC series about World War I. Minister of munitions David Lloyd George struggles to modernise Britain's industrial capability.

David Lloyd George struggled to modernise Britain. As minister of munitions he was faced with an industrial capability severely lacking. In some key fields, Britain even relied on German imports. With the help of American equipment Lloyd George was able to drag British industry into the twentieth century, and from 1916 Britain was able to produce all the war materials the troops needed.

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Classic BBC documentary series about the world-shattering events of 1914-1918

Classic BBC documentary series, first broadcast in 1964, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and with the voices of Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring

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