Season 16 · Episode 4

The Boer War: The First Media War

  • Release date
  • March 18, 1997
  • Runtime
  • 50 min

The Boer War of 1899-1902 saw correspondents and cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time. Diaries, memoirs, photographs and films form part of an examination of the media's role in a conflict that saw young journalists Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and writer Edgar Wallace make their names.

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