I. The film is often disjointed, but covers the transfer of American manpower and matériel across the Atlantic, culminating in their first major engagement in the Battle of Château-Thierry in June 1...
Chang's Army of Fengtien, with Russian assistance, advances down the coast of the Gulf of Chihli, the territory of the warlord Wu Pei-Fu of Peking. Most of the battle sequences are clearly reconstruct...
The film opens with Marshal Joffre talking to General Pershing. It then shows French soldiers in the rear area peeling potatoes, moving around woods, saddling pack horses to take them for a ride, and ...
The film describes the achievements of "the Cavalry of the Clouds". It starts with an RAF squadron in France in 1918 (actually 84 Squadron at Bertangles) being briefed and taking off in their SE5as. T...
The town is shown from a distance, then in close-up. The suburbs are burnt out and deserted. The main square is relatively undamaged. The collegiate church and the Church of Saint Martin show consider...
Franchet d'Esperey is met from his train by various military representatives of the Allies, British, Italian and Serbian. Franchet d'Esperey goes on with his staff to review part of the French conting...
The body of Marshal Foch lies in state at the Invalides. King Albert of Belgium and then a crowd of people file past to pay their last respects. For the procession the streets are lined with soldiers....
I. (Reel 5) Impressionistic to the point of incoherence. Starting with troops disembarking at a harbour. Marching columns, some of them identified: the Devonshire Regiment, some Scots, the Bedfordshir...
A group of Austrian soldiers in front of the barracks and offircer on horseback.
Three soldiers under fire in the meadow near the wood.
The battle of Zborov: volunteer Tomeš with a machine gun in the trench. Another soldiers helps him with the magazine.
The battle of Zborov: Austrian trenches.
The battle of Zborov: Tomeš in the foreground and other two soldiers with rifles and bayonets in the trench.
The battle of Zborov: Soldiers overcoming barriers.
The battle of Zborov: Injured soldier drinks from a puddle.
The battle of Zborov: An observer in a tree