More than fifteen film students assisted the production and gained practical on-set experience.
This feature documentary has been described by the filmmakers and production as a ''factual musical''.
The period of principal photography on this feature documentary was about a three week shoot.
Wardrobe used during the shoot were exact replicas of the original British uniforms. Historically accurate costumes were hand made for the more than sixty actors that played a part in the filming.
In some sequence,s a wall map shows the movement of German, French, British and Belgian troops in Western Europe during August 1914. The map shows the position and direction of movement by the German troops during the Schlieffen plan, the ambitions of the French Plan 17, and the meeting between the French and British commanders at Melun on 5th September 1914 at Melun in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France in north central France.