Poster of Cast and Crew in Timewatch - Season 16 - Episode 4 - The Boer War: The First Media War

Timewatch - Season 16 - The Boer War: The First Media War (Episode 4)

Plot: 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
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, March 18 1997
27 years ago