The Great War (YouTube channel)
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| Channel | TheGreatWar | ||||||
| Years active | July 28, 2014 | ||||||
| Genre | History | ||||||
| Subscribers | 669,064 | ||||||
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The Great War is a YouTube channel hosted by American actor Indiana Neidell that covers the events of the First World War.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The channel produces weekly content that follows the events that occurred one hundred years prior during the war.[9] The channel has been in operation since May 2014 and will continue to produce content until November 2018. As of January 2017, the channel has posted over 400 videos.[10]
Premise
The Great War channel produces a number of different types of content but usually is a weekly recap of the war that corresponds to the events of the same week 100 years prior. The events presented are summarized quarterly in their own videos.
The channel also does some other segments such as:
- "Out of the Trenches" - an informative segment in which the host answers questions asked by subscribers on a wide range of topics.
- "Who Did What in World War 1?" - a biographical segment that focuses on the actions of famous individuals during the First World War.
- "Out of the Ether" - Interesting viewer commentary about World War I is presented and debated.
- "Countries in World War I: - A segment that gives a summary of the situation of individual countries during the war.
- Technology and Warfare in World War 1 - Experts inspect and discuss weapons and tools from the war.
- World War 1 Essential Knowledge - A segment which is designed to provide background information on the war, such as tactics and politics.
- Visits to significant European sites of the war, including Verdun and Przemyśl fortress.
History
Indiana Neidell and the producers of the channel tried a number of different show formats with only The Great War surviving. Mediakraft Networks, the production company of The Great War originally planned to launch as well a German, Polish and Turkish language version.[11] However, unlike the English channel these ambiguous projects did not prove to have a chance to recoup their costs.[12] This quickly led to the termination of the Polish channel. On August 17th, 2015 the German series ended its run after a total of 102 episodes. The English channel continued substantially due to support by crowd funding.
The show got a big boost in viewership when the Battlefield 1 first-person shooter video game developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 21, 2016. Neidell, with research assistant Markus Linke, also contributed research and wrote in-game codex entries for Battlefield 1 and named the "medals" that serve as the game's achievement trophies.[13]
References
Citations
- ↑ Kaye, Jeremy (January 25, 2017). "8 Entertaining History Shows on YouTube That You Should Subscribe To". Medium. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
- ↑ Motta, Alberto (November 6, 2016). "The Great War, un canale YouTube sulla Grande Guerra fatto davvero bene". Wired Italia. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ↑ Sharma, Nandini (July 23, 2015). "YouTube Channel Of The Week: The Great War". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ↑ thegreatwar.tv 2017
- ↑ Lewis, Danny (September 27, 2016). "This Documentary Series Will Teach You About World War I in Real Time; A week-by-week approach to the Great War". Smithsonian. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ↑ Martin 2014
- ↑ Miklosz 2016
- ↑ Brown 2014
- ↑ Winkie 2016
- ↑ The Great War (YouTube Channel) 2017
- ↑ Briel, Robert (December 5, 2014). "YouTube series follows Great War week-by-week". Broadband TV News. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ↑ Willner, Marcus (August 8, 2015). "YouTube-Produktion «Der Erste Weltkrieg» wird eingestellt". watson. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ↑ The Great War (YouTube Channel) (November 22, 2016). Our Contribution To Battlefield 1 (Video) (YouTube). Mediakraft Networks. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
Bibliography
- Brown, Steven (September 4, 2014). "Houstonian hosts 'Great War' series on Youtube". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
- Martin, Rachel (November 23, 2014). "WWI YouTube Series Builds A Week-By-Week Horror Story". NPR. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
- Miklosz, Dan (July 8, 2016). "The Great War, a great (YouTube) documentary with their host Indy Neidell". thefoundersreport.com. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
- thegreatwar.tv (2017). "The Great War | WW1 Online Series". The Great War. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- The Great War (YouTube Channel) (2017). The Great War (Video) (YouTube). Mediakraft Networks. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
- Winkie, Luke (August 30, 2016). "This Documentary Is Telling the Story of World War I in Real Time". VICE. Retrieved February 13, 2017.