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...
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 ...
I. Newsreel item showing the remains of the Cloth Hall and water tower at Ypres, Western Front, March-April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on the Earl of Scarborough inspecting 1...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on General Sir William Robertson inspecting Australian and New Zealand officer trainees in Cambridge, April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsr...
The jumbled film consists of unrelated, very brief items. Some of these appear in other films but the majority are probably unique.
Mixed and confused material, some of it unique, of the Western ...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...