In 1920, in a village in French Alsace, many people have come to attend the national holiday celebration. Officers and well-known civilians are in attendance and a Major General presides over the loca...
November 1916. Funeral service for the victims of November 14. General Plentey, who is deputy mayor and in command of Place d'Amiens, gives a speech at the Hôtel-Dieu. Arrival at the cathedral.
To fight Austria, the Italian army crosses rivers, digs trenches, and builds bridges. Faced with the mountain, the troops climb, and hoist up heavy artillery.
Though the railroad bridge has been destroyed at Rocchette Piovene, the enemy is firing shots in retaliation, and the Isonzo river is low, yet the Duke of Aosta's troops advance towards Gorizia step b...
Little Ginette learns from a newspaper that Amama, a "Turco" (a soldier from the French colonies), has been decorated for his superb feats in battle. In admiration of his incredible bravery, the young...
During the First World War, Vickers manufactured munitions and war materials needed for combat. In the workshops, shrapnel and shells are manufactured by workers, while women and young girls assemble ...
Montage of intermission intertitles made for movie theaters: a movie director notably conveys his greetings to his clientele from the front.
In February 1916, french soldiers inspect a Zeppelin's wreck, shot down by the autocannons' section of Revigny near Brabant-le-Roi