One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history ended 94 years ago this Sunday. Sometimes the saying is wrong, and a few carefully chosen words can be worth 1,000 images.

Watch Sean Bean and other performers read poems from the Great War here.

— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer. Follow him on Twitter: @peesch.

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