14/18 is a TV work based to a great extent on the army cinematography of the beginning of the 20th century. It is a huge project to renew this war narrative, which has been told so many times. The archive pictures we know, usually pictures rebuilt after the battle or the end of the war on battlefi elds, are used in this production as well, but they have been cleverly colorized. The tone of the production is rough but so is the material. There is no better defi nition for the First World War than the Big Butchery. Individual tragedy multiplied by millions in colour.