8 Details You Didn't Know About 1917

7. 1 Mile Of Trenches

1917 Trenches
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There were about 5200 feet of trenches dug for the film, which equals around a mile in length.

To put that in perspective there were about 43 and a half miles dug for every minute of the movie's 119-minute runtime. That is a whole lot of digging, especially when considering how much of the movie that isn't set in or around a trench.

Here is One Mile Scroll for comparison. Just imagine digging through dirt instead of scrolling.

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