Veteran's Day Program & FREE MOVIE "They Shall Not Grow Old"

Name: Veteran's Day Program & FREE MOVIE "They Shall Not Grow Old"
Start: 2025-11-11T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 1124 Meridian St, Anderson, IN, United States, Indiana 46016

Schedule

Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1124 Meridian St, Anderson, IN, United States, Indiana 46016 | Anderson, IN

Come Celebrate Our Veterans by Attending a FREE Event @ The Paramount!
Doors open @ 6pm
Organ concert by George Smith
"A Salute to Veterans" begins @ 7:00 pm
Movie Starts @ 7:30pm
They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. It was created using footage of the First World War held by the British Imperial War Museum (IWM), most of which was previously unseen, and all of which was over 100 years old by the time of the film's release. Much of the footage was colorized and restored using modern production techniques for its use in the film, and sound effects and voice acting were added to the silent footage. The film's narration was edited from interviews with British WWI veterans from the collections of the BBC and the IWM.
Jackson dedicated the film—his first documentary as director—to his grandfather, who fought in WWI. He said his intention was for the film to be an immersive experience of "what it was like to be a soldier", rather than a story or recounting of events. The crew reviewed 100 hours of archival film footage and 600 hours of interviews with 200 WWI veterans to find the materials from which to construct the film. The film's title was inspired by a line ("They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old") from Laurence Binyon's 1914 poem "For the Fallen", famous for being used in the "Ode of Remembrance".
sponsored by Madison County Community Foundation