Instruments Of War (Set)

The Powerful Story of the Great Highland Bagpipe first shown on international television including PBS and the History Channel.
INSTRUMENTS OF WAR PART 1 – LADIES FROM HELL The first part of this award winning series starts in ancient times and concludes at the end of World War One, when Scottish pipers still led their troops into battle. This definitive history contains rare archive footage. Specially shot sequences include: – The Queen Mother with the London Scottish Regiment – The Prince of Wales – Fort Ticonderoga, New York – George Ives, last survivor of the Boer War – Harry Lunan, last piper in action during WWI

INSTRUMENTS OF WAR PART 2 – CALL TO THE BLOOD

The Powerful Story of the Great Highland Bagpipe first shown on international television including PBS and the History Channel. Part 2 traces the effect of the bagpipes from the battlefields of World War II to the present day. Specially shot sequences include – The duties of a regimental piper in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders – Scots pipers in battle in Burma during WWII – What the pipes mean to Phil Collins and Capercaillie – The Canadian piper who fought on D-Day – The Army Piping School in Edinburgh – The effect of the bagpipes in far away places featuring pipers from the Jordanian Army and the French Navy. – How the pipes were used as a propaganda weapon during WWII