The First War To Be Photographed | The Crimean War

In May 1855, three armies of British, French, and Turks were encamped on the plains of the Crimea in southern Russia. They had left home thinking it was going to be a short war but now, 8 months after landing, they knew otherwise and they longed for home. Diaries and letters of those who fought on the front lines of the Crimean War offer a unique perspective on the war which has been said to straddle a line between that of myth and the modern world. This documentary explores just why and how it happened while showing the first-ever photographs of war taken from the front lines.