The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
War drama about a father and a son who depart to the French-German front. The son is deceased during a battle, which great sadness for the father.
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Paris, in September and October 1918. Captured Drahen balloons are displayed in the Tuileries Garden and on the Champs-Elysées. On the boulevards, Parisians can see the advances on the western front ...
Military railway station at the German western front in WWI; loading material for road-works, rations are transported to the front; a captured English store, English rations, evacuation of captured ma...
Version with French language subtitles of part of IWM 17 the NEW CRUSADERS Men of 1/8th Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, 54th (East Anglia) Division, on Samson Ridge, resting and eating. Some of the...
A 3-D documentary on WWI which combines historical footage, tinted stereoscopic images, film fragments, diary entries and letters from the front into a collage. Several narrators recite the historical...
G. W. Pabst’s anti-war classic tells the story of four German soldiers on the Western Front in France in the last year of the First World War. The Bavarian sees the war primarily as an adventure. Th...
In front of a country church, women clad in Setesdal bunads (traditional Norwegian folk costumes) display their fine silver accessories. Silversmith Knut Sigurdsøn Helle, of Hylestad in Setesdal, is ...
Finland beats Sweden in a shooting competition. Football match: Finland v. Sweden. Speech by Erik von Frenckell (1887-1977). Mr Fagerholm (1901-1984), Minister for Social Affairs, greets the players...
Bøssernes Befrielsesfront (B.B.F.) startede i 1971 som en aktionsgruppe, der gennem deres fisselettede optræden både provokerede borgerskabet og de 'pæne' selvundertrykkende homofile. Flere af de ...
"Donau er udgangspunkt for enhver militær operation, lige meget hvilken retning denne føres i; den er en ypperlig forsvarslinie, egnet til at gøre front mod et hvilket som helst angreb, hvor det en...
1. 8000 danske arbejdere er fra Tyskland ankommet på juleorlov, stemningen er høj i togene og ved færgen. 2. Fodboldspillernes julestævne i Københavns Idrætspark sætter rekord med 11.000 tilsku...
300 er den drabelige genfortælling af Slaget ved Thermopylæ, hvor Kong Leonidas og hans 300 tapre spartanere sloges mod den persiske Kong Xerxes og hans enorme hær. Spartanerne stod overfor en umul...
Ein Kinderdrama (Kostüm) mit
1. Begrafenis van Staf De Clercq. / 2. Zwemwedstrijd in de haven van Barcelona. / 3. Katoenoogst in Afrika. / 4. De vislederproductie in Estland. / 5. Winterkapsels en winterhoeden. / 6. "De Ramblers"...