Only the brake-wheel can be seen of the train, and for part of the time a lance-corporal brakeman with his back to the camera. The track moves through the rubble, clay and destroyed villages of the ar...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
The film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Infanterie, Munitionskolonnen und Tross auf dem Marsch zur Front; Rast auf Straßen und in Dörfern in Nordfrankreich; Abwehr eines feindlichen Infanterieangriffs; deutscher Stoßtrupp geht gegen fein...
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
Fragment of newsreel or reportage about World War I with the label "Une réserve d'obusiers". The film content is just a pan from left to right which shows a long guns battery. The guns are aligned in...
A nursing home behind the lines with Jules Copin, his wife and child, and two blind aunts, led by two nurses. Copin was a French soldier captured by the Germans in September 1914 who escaped and was h...
The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Château, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some captured German trench mortars and a new Mark I Female tank. Leading the Spani...
Corporate film about the Koninklijke Begeer precious metals forge Corporate film that the Koninklijke Begeer precious metals forge used to present itself to its customers. The film portrays Begeer as...
An interesting review of the Savoy Cavalry at practice and drill is herein presented. They are seen descending high embankments and fording streams and ends with field drill. The film is somewha...
1. Zwischentitel: Schichtwechsel. Bild: Auf dem Fabrikgelände der AEG Berlin gehen Frauen an Fabrikgebäuden, gestapelten Fäßern und einem Pferd vorbei. 2. Zwischentitel: Herstellung der Töpfe f...
Highlanders, probably 8th/10th Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders, sit with some South African Engineers of 9th Division outside the ruins of Arras Cathedral, 24th January 1918. Royal Engineers (or pos...