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...
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
The film gives a vivid and lively picture of landscape, buildings, industry and everyday life in the small city of Sandefjord in the southern parts of Norway.
On board of a German battleship.
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orléans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 191...
Russian war drama about the love between a peasant girl and a Russian prince at the time of the Russian (February) Revolution in 1917. As a young peasant girl, Mary Warren (Geraldine Farrar) is being ...
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
The film shows a gathering in the city of Lillehammer in Norway by farmers from Gudbrandsdalen. We also visit several places in Gudbrandsdalen before returning to the farmers' association's gathering ...
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...
International newsreel. Most of the content is news about the war, and especially about the serbs. We also see American nurses on their way to the front. There are also some sportscasts.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
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...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...