Version with French language subtitles of part of IWM 17 the NEW CRUSADERS Men of 1/8th Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, 54th (East Anglia) Division, on Samson Ridge, resting and eating. Some of the...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
Footage from the Italian colonial campaign in Libya in 1911: a battery in an oasis; trench digging; a farmhouse occupied after a bombing; the loading of three hundred prisoners.
Fridtjof Nansen was the leader of The League of Nations' repatriation work for prisoners of war after World War I. This film shows a LN meeting in Geneva, probably in 1920, and soldiers on their way ...
Špilberk is a picturesque castle dominating the modern city of Brno (Czech Republic). Over the course of time it has been a fortress, prison, museum and a place for torture. During the Inquisit...
The Germans are from various branches and include some Austrians. The first camp is a large school or similar institution, with additional wooden huts built on its grounds. One group of officers poses...
A column of prisoners, "Prussians and Bavarians" moving over rough ground with an escort. A body search of prisoners in a trench. German prisoners help British RAMC men with British and German wounded...
The camp is mainly of wooden huts with a few permanent buildings, for German NCOs and other ranks. Roll-call is taken early in the morning by the Germans themselves. Most are wearing patched uniforms ...
The prisoners are in an open compound surrounded by brick buildings. They assemble naked and are given haircuts by Austro-Hungarian troops while their own officers watch and, behind them, their clothe...
May 1916. A large detachment of prisoners arrives at the Souilly (Meuse) camp. The detachment stands out, with prisoners from Alsace, Poland and Denmark. Featuring: A panorama of the camp and its wall...
While their French Army guards watch, the German prisoners work breaking rocks and shovelling soil, probably for road-fill.
Newsreel item on German prisoners at work in Brittany, early 1915.
Short reportage in which an Austrian army commander (possibly the minister of War) is inspecting the town Kopiczince in Ukraïne (Russia) which is conquered by the Germans and the Austrians. Followed ...
This film covers the American contribution in France in the last weeks of WWI. It consists of two parts: The first is about the battles of Chateau Thierry and the Belleau Wood in July 1918, and the se...
The film describes the prisoners as the "result of the great French victory in Champagne". They are led into a large cultivated area, standing in 'blocks' of a few hundred men. Dragoons, apparently in...
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, ...
The Main Square in Eger. A crowd has gathered in the street to watch the casualties being loaded into and carried away by cars, horse-drawn carriages and lorries. The crowd cheers on the casualties, s...