The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Melodrama waarin een stiefvader de erfenis van zijn twee stiefdochters in handen probeert te krijgen. Als de ene sterft en de ander zich opoffert komt hij tot inkeer.
Korte oorlogsreportage over het Duitse marineschip 'Möwe'. Dit schip houdt Britse schepen aan, neemt de bemanning aan boord en vernietigt de vaartuigen. Ook schepen van neutrale landen worden aangeho...
Beelden, uit 1914, van de fabricage van vliegtuigen: Een dubbeldekker wordt naar buiten gebracht en de motor wordt erop gemonteerd. Het vliegtuig kan geheel in onderdelen, als bouwpakket, vervoerd wor...
Jonas, the lord of the manor, and Ahti the Finn have been close friends for years. When Jonas's sister is attacked by a gypsy, Jonas and Ahti come to her aid, and the gypsy is badly beaten. Soon after...
Cesarina Rupert, a modern day Messalina, is Claudio’s wife, a patriot and a brilliant inventor of war vehicles for France. Between personal drama and spy intrigues, this mismatched couple is d...
Guazzoni, in putting on this sensational work must have encountered many difficulties. However, he overcame them brilliantly. He presents the episodes and vicissitudes which characterise the liv...
First lead role for the gentle giant Maciste (original name Bartolomeo Pagano), who stole the scene to the leaders and the princesses in "Cabiria". The period and the location are different, but not t...
The making of patriotic films was not rare among FAI productions, and "Il bacio della gloria" is one example, together with "Armi e amori" (1913) and "Per la Patria!" (1915). “In the Speech fr...
The melancholy story of a juvenile love in the early twentieth century Turin: the student Mario meets and gets engaged to the seamstress Dorina, his landlady’s daughter. A beautiful and bored lady d...
Newsreels from 1914 to 1934: Blizzard and snow clearing at Finse in 1916, a new swimming pool opens in Oslo in 1920, solar eclipse in 1927, flod in Lillestrøm in 1927, and finally the celebration in...
'ALLENBY WANTED IN CAIRO: Conqueror of Palestine who was called to Peace Conference in Paris and had to rush back to Cairo'. Brief close-up of Allenby, in uniform, posing for the camera.
Short fr...
Unedited footage. Incomplet. The departure of the Infantry Regiment of Chaves’ towards the train station to depart to Lisbon and further embarkment to Angola.
The emperor is taking a stroll on the promenade deck of "Hohenzollern" with consul Mohr and captain Graf von Platen. The consul receives an order from the emperor.
This newsreel consists of 6 parts, showing soldiers training, ruins, life in the trenches, and German prioners of war in a camp in Brittany.
Whaling ship outside the coast of Norway brings whales to the whalery. We see work processes at the whaleries in Bergen and other places.
A common motto of the three friends before leaving for the front: "The world must protect democracy and small nations against "boots" of Prussian militarism!"