II. French newsreel item on German prisoners of war at Saint-Dizier, France, September 1917.Some of the prisoners work in a wood cutting timber and piling up sticks. Others dig up stones for roadfill....
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’ ...
Hybrid storytelling about the famous Belgian martyr, whose good intentions resulted in her own killing. The staged scenes are being interspersed with archival footage, mostly concerning several milita...
Four officers round a planning table decide on the offensive. A regimental colonel receives his orders outside his dugout. The bombardment starts, from rifle grenades, 58mm Crapouillot mortars, 105mm ...
Anzac Beach in July 1915 (not "May, a month after the landing". See Notes - Summary). Men of the ANZAC Corps help build Watson's Pier. Further up the beach, caves and shelters have been dug into the h...
The inmates are all women, at least some permanently invalided. They work at tables with paints and paper making the flowers.Columns of Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war march, escorted by Russian hor...
Soldiers start digging a trench system and wiring up the positions. Finned mortar bombs for a 58mm Crapouillot (?) are carried forward into a front-line trench and used to bombard the German positions...
(Reel 1) Replacements, probably in Britain October-December 1917, drill and train. The brigade itself in France, probably early March 1918, resting, marching, eating and swimming. The brigade horse-sh...
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 ...
Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is lying on a hospital bed in the foreground. Three figures are standing over him: Nurse Mathilde (actor: Adina Mandlová) on the left, and doctors Šrám...
View of a hospital room. In the centre of the image, cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad) is lying on a bed and hugging his mother (actress: Marie Ptáková), who is sitting next to him. Rjepkin is ...
Wide shot of an office. Standing from left to right are: Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), an Austrian colonel (actor: Jaroslav Marvan), a military guard, Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír ...
Wide shot of an officer. Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is standing on the left. Dr. (actor: František Smolík) is standing behind a desk on the right with his back to Rjepkin. An Aust...
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...
First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann) is lying on a hospital bed with his leg in a cast and smoking. An Austrian officer is sitting to the right of him and peeling something. In the ba...