The Great War (YouTube channel)

The Great War
The Great War YouTube Logo
The Great War YouTube Logo
Website TheGreatWar.tv
YouTube information
Channel
Years active (2014-07-28) July 28, 2014
Genre History
Subscribers 920,561
Total views 148,498,522
(September 21, 2018)
100,000 subscribers 2015

CHANNEL CREDITS

  • A Mediakraft Networks original channel
  • Based on a concept by Spartacus Olsson
  • Lead Writer: Indiana Neidell
  • Producer: Toni Steller, Florian Wittig
  • Social Media Manager: Florian Wittig

The Great War is a YouTube channel hosted by American actor and historian 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 September 21, 2018, the channel has posted 633 videos.[10]

Premise

The Great War channel produces a number of different types of content, the main feature being a weekly recap of the war that corresponds to the events of the same week 100 years prior. The events presented are also summarized quarterly in their own videos.

The channel also presents 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 I?" - a biographical segment that focuses on the actions of famous individuals during the First World War.
  • "Countries in World War I" - A segment that gives a summary of the situation of individual countries just before and during the war.
  • Technology and Warfare in World War I - Experts inspect and discuss weapons and tools from the war.
  • World War I 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]

Reception

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Sequel

With the World War I project coming to a close in November 2018, Indy Neidell and Spartacus Olsson are making preparations for an equivalent YouTube project focusing on World War II, which they will produce themselves through their own TimeGhost channel with a projected start date for September 1, 2018. Considering that war's longer duration and larger scope for this independent project without the participation of Mediakraft Networks, it will be a collaboration of various channels: TimeGhost will focus on a weekly series on the general historical events of the war in the European and Pacific Theatres of the war. Meanwhile, other channels will concurrently produce material focusing on different aspects such as Forgotten Weapons on the era's armaments and Real Engineering on the era's industrial advancements.[17] To raise the seed money for this project, there has been a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised €54,380 ($63,816).[18]

The World War Two channel launched on September 1, 2018, coinciding with the Invasion of Poland.

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Kaye, Jeremy (January 25, 2017). "8 Entertaining History Shows on YouTube That You Should Subscribe To". Medium. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ Motta, Alberto (November 6, 2016). "The Great War, un canale YouTube sulla Grande Guerra fatto davvero bene". Wired Italia. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Sharma, Nandini (July 23, 2015). "YouTube Channel Of The Week: The Great War". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ thegreatwar.tv 2017
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Martin 2014
  7. ↑ Miklosz 2016
  8. ↑ Brown 2014
  9. ↑ Winkie 2016
  10. ↑ The Great War (YouTube Channel) 2017
  11. ↑ Briel, Robert (December 5, 2014). "YouTube series follows Great War week-by-week". Broadband TV News. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  12. ↑ Willner, Marcus (August 8, 2015). "YouTube-Produktion «Der Erste Weltkrieg» wird eingestellt". watson. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  13. ↑ The Great War (YouTube Channel) (November 22, 2016). Our Contribution To Battlefield 1 (Video) (YouTube). Mediakraft Networks. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  14. ↑ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-youtube-channels-for-binge-watching-2017-07-19
  15. ↑ https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-adpocalypse/
  16. ↑ https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-education-channels/
  17. ↑ Gutelle, Sam. "Top YouTube Historians, Led By 'The Great War' Host, Are Teaming Up To Recap World War II, Day By Day". Tubefilter. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  18. ↑ "TimeGhost - Online Historical Documentaries & WWII Coop". Kickstarter. Retrieved 10 February 2018.

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.
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