The R36 is nose-forward in its shed. Workers turn a large capstan to wind back the doors of the shed and the airship is towed out. It is clearly marked as R36 and as G-FAAF. It takes off from its laun...
The progress of the war is represented by animated maps. A hand reaches out from Germany into Belgium and grabs Liège at the start of the war. A young soldier, in an acted scene, says goodbye to his ...
The brigade is drawn up in hollow square around the wooden memorial in Delville Wood. The three chaplains - Anglican, Dutch Reform and Presbyterian - conduct the service. The divisional commander, Maj...
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...
This is the first film devoted to the New Zealand Division. It was taken on 8-15 March 1917. It opens with Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, the divisional commander, with Sir Walter Long, Secretary o...
I. The steam catapult trials carried out at the Armstrong Whitworth plant, Elswick, and later at the Experimental Aircraft Depot, Isle of Grain. A steam catapult fitted to HMS Slinger is used first to...
The main map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt and from Antwerp south to Orléans. First a close-up of the British positions at the end of the First Battle of Ypres. Then the main map showing ...
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...