# Movies shot a long time before they were released

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> They Shall Not Grow Old, 2018 but filmed in 1918 at the latest? Maybe colorization for the latter part and such updates the time frame, so a big asterisk is needed.

A \*really \*big asterisk! 😃

Yes, the footage for the film was shot during WWI, but it was only colorized and assembled into a film by Peter Jackson in the past few years. So it doesn’t really meet the criteria for this thread, since it wasn’t a completed film that was shelved.

Still very much worth watching, though.

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