
Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with the world's first colour camera system and dispatched them across the globe. Their films and 72,000 photographs offer a unique insight into the formative years of the 20th Century.
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Air Date: 2007-04-19
This episode details the origins of the project with fascinating background to the invention of the autochrome system...
Air Date: 2007-04-26
Men Of The World – the second of this fascinating, five-part series chronicling the adventures of Kahn's photographer...
Air Date: 2007-05-03
It is the eve of the First World War and Kahn's photographers are travelling from the West, where they capture the ti...
Air Date: 2007-05-10
Between 1914 and 1918, Kahn dispatched several members of his team to the battlefields, where they recorded in remark...
Air Date: 2007-05-17
In The Civilians' Story, viewers see harrowing images of the many French towns that were razed, their churches and ci...