War drama. The intersection of multiple realities will be a little too late. A general considers his son to be a deserter since there is no other option for him but to serve in the German army because...
G. W. Pabst’s anti-war classic tells the story of four German soldiers on the Western Front in France in the last year of the First World War. The Bavarian sees the war primarily as an adventure. Th...
The tanks, Males and Females, are all unarmed and instead of battalion numbers carry large training numbers on their noses. Firstly a pan over the instructing officers in front of two of the tanks. At...
The film's captions are outspoken and dramatic. "We are moving forward to Victory, and our soldiers are marching along the long road without faltering. We at home must set our teeth and have patience....
Baylies, shot down on 17th June (described as "reported missing") was an American flying with 3ième Escadrille. He is shown beside his Spad 13 talking with a French officer.The men move along a trenc...
The troops (described as in action, but quite clearly training) practise rushing forward from slit trench to slit trench, directed by umpires. They throw their smoke grenades into the opposing trenche...
General Joffre, General Foch and Minister of War Millerand wait at Compiègne station for Kitchener's train. He arrives with his ADC Colonel O A FitzGerald and Brigadier-General the Honourable H Yarde...
Royal Engineers start to dig a trench in open country. Men of the Machine Gun Corps (?) rest by the roadside. More soldiers dig trenches in the open. A column of horsemen, possibly 1st Cavalry Divisio...
01078 - Rubescourt - Front line (Somme department, Picardie) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
3219 - Chevreux 1917 - at the front line (Cheuvreux?)
Wolfgang Filzinger, trench near Pontfaverger, May 1915
Jiří (actor: Vladimir Chinkulov Vladimírov) looks out the rench. A pillar with the barbed wire is in the foreground.
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: Countdown before the assault.