Timewatch

Season 16, Episode 4

Episode Title: The Boer War: The First Media War

Air Date: 1997-03-18

Overview:

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.