"Der Feind hört mit" is a propaganda film showing the unintentional effects of a negligent comment made by one German radio operator which causes the loss of many German lives. The slogan "Feind hör...
Pathé-Journal newsreel on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on the 28th of June 1914. Shown are the Franz Joseph st...
The "Lone Wolf," a thief before World War I, crosses enemy lines in the midst of battle and finally reaches the British trenches, where Lieutenant Thackeray, formerly of Scotland Yard, commissions him...
The 2nd of August 1914 - mobilization day. French troops invade German territory and occupy an inn. The innkeeper's daughter reports the attack. The French soldiers are overpowered.
Fall, 1917: The Russian revolution has succeded. German machinist Henne Lobke and the stoker Jens Kasten show their solidarity with the revolutionaries by disarming their officers and preventing them ...
„The seeds of fruit must not be grounded“ – this quote by Goethe was often used by artist Käthe Kollwitz to argue for peace. Her work on her famous anti-war monument and thinking about how an a...
The 1978 documentary Matrosen in Berlin (Sailors in Berlin) deals with the history of the Volksmarinedivision (People’s Naval Division) in Berlin in the turbulent period right after the end of World...
Wanda works at the Garbaty cigarette factory. Her boss, cigarette manufacturer Heinrich Löbel, is smitten. After a rendezvous Wanda asks her boss to marry her but he was hoping for another outcome fo...