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 ...
Bahnhof einer Feldbahn an der deutschen Westfront im 1. Weltkrieg.; Verladen von Material für den Straßenbau, Verpflegung wird zur Front gefahren; Ein erbeutetes englisches Lager, englische Lebensmi...
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...
Dokumentarfilm in 3D, der historische, handkolorierte Stereoskop-Bilder, Filmfragmente, Tagebücher und Feldpostbriefe aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einer Art filmischen Collage verbindet. Die historisc...
G.W. Pabst Antikriegsfilm-Klassiker erzählt die Geschichte vierer deutscher Soldaten an der französischen Front im letzten Jahr des Ersten Weltkriegs. Der Bayer betrachtet den Krieg in erster Linie ...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Feldflugplatz mit mehreren, nacheinander startenden Doppeldeckern "Albatros C". 1. Zwischentitel: Aufklärer. Bild: Ein Aufklärungsflugzeug "LVG C II"; der Pilot im Flugzeug; der Beobachter steigt e...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.