(Missing is an opening sequence showing the tearing up of the treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality.) 'Martyred Belgium' is the title introducing 'scene 2'. Britannia posed beside the figure of 'Belg...
The film depends for its effect on stop-action camera tricks. It opens with 'President Kruger' of the Transvaal Republic gloating over a bust of himself. Beside him, a large placard reads "On Majuba D...
The King inspects the ship's company drawn up on deck. With him are various naval and civilian dignitaries, including Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty (seen briefly). The party comes d...
Winter on the Western Front 1915-1916. Soldiers travel on a light railway; a 6-inch howitzer and 9.2-inch howitzers firing in damp and snow; troops in snow-covered trenches, including one 'over the to...
This episode follows the normal structure of First World War 'battle' pictures. The troops in columns march up to the villages behind the lines. The guns, including a 12-inch railway gun and an 18-pou...
Arrival of the Indian Corps in Marseilles in September 1914. A montage of recruiting posters. Civilians are exhorted to join the Army. They queue at the Central London Recruiting Office in Westminster...
I. The film is outspoken, "The evidence - both documentary and otherwise - is now ample to prove that Germany forced this great and terrible War upon humanity to secure for herself the domination of t...
The episode opens with a table showing the increase in personnel of the Army and Navy in the first twelve months of the war. A new merchant ship is launched. Australian soldiers in dress uniform march...