Watch Revisionist Blues

A Singing Documentary. In World War 1 the trench war in France was bloody and cruel, with tens of thousands of men sacrificed, the British badly led by the arrogant and stubborn General Haig, using outdated military tactics. But now, with the war's centenary, some academics have created a 'revisionist', positive, view of Haig and the war - loved by right-wing politicians and nationalists.