What is the title of Peter Jackson's 2018 World War I documentary?

Peter Jackson’s 2018 World War I documentary is titled They Shall Not Grow Old. The film transforms archival material from the First World War into an immersive account of soldiers’ experiences.

Jackson worked with footage held by the Imperial War Museum and audio drawn from interviews with British veterans. Much of the silent, black-and-white film was digitally restored, colorized and given sound effects, while the veterans’ words were edited into narration. The result connects viewers with everyday details of military life rather than presenting only a conventional chronology of battles.

The title comes from Laurence Binyon’s 1914 poem “For the Fallen,” particularly the line “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.” Jackson dedicated the documentary to his grandfather, William Jackson, who served in the First World War. The film premiered in October 2018, ahead of its BBC broadcast on 11 November, the centenary of the Armistice.