The film starts with an order of the day, in French and Flemish, from King Albert to his soldiers dated 27th September, telling them that the time for the decisive attack has come. 75mm guns start the...
The film opens with rolling fields, corn stacks at regular intervals. Soldiers line up for an open-air pay parade. Walking wounded come up a hill towards the camera, followed by some stretcher cases, ...
I. 'ZEPPELIN CREW'S BURIAL The charred remains of the Germans who set out to hurl death amongst defenceless women and children, being conveyed on an Army transport waggon'. RFC officers and men carry ...
(Reel 1) A working class back street slum, with the men at war and the women largely unable to cope with growing children. Lizzie has a small baby that her husband Jim, a corporal serving in France, h...
In World War I, Romania is still neutral. In Bucharest, people demonstrate for entering the war alongside the Entante and freeing the Romanians from Transylvania. Mares, the leader of the Students’ ...
This episode follows the normal structure of First World War 'battle' pictures. The troops in columns march up to the villages behind the lines. The guns, including a 12-inch railway gun and an 18-pou...
(Reel 9) A bombardment in progress. Mk I tanks move up. Fatigue parties (described as "doctors") move forwards. Prisoners are brought in and the captured area mopped up. The German Crown Prince's head...
An unfinished stable at the hospital, "will you help the RSPCA to complete it ?". A group of three horses. A wounded horse being attended to at a mobile veterinary section near the front. Wounded hors...
Wounded soldiers eat in a hospital room.
Medium shot of several men sitting around a table with a half loaf of bread and a carafe of water. On the left sits Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) with a bandaged neck. To the right sit Vyskočil (...
Wide shot of a corridor and a door with a sign indicating "MUDr. Fr. Šrámek." Standing in front of the door are nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František ...
Wide shot of a corridor. Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) is standing on the right with an arm in a cast and bandaged eyes. Infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk) is standing next...
Wide shot of a church interior that has been converted into a military hospital. Wounded soldiers sit or lie on hospital beds lined up along the walls. Other patients sit at the two tables standing in...