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 shots of an office. A group of seven Austrian officers (fifth from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan) stand at the door and look at Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), who is standing behind a ...
Wide shot of a hospital room with a group of standing patients and three military privates. One of the privates, infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), stands in the middle and conducts as th...
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...
Wide shot of a hospital room where doctors are making rounds. On the left are tables with bread and carafes of water. Chairs are standing around the tables. Five doctors stand in the middle of the roo...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) stands in the middle of the corridor clasping hands with Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič), whose other arm...
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. Standing in front of the door to Dr. Šrámek's office are Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) and Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) flanked by Austrian military guards...
Wide shot of an office. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) is sitting at a desk and pointing at another doctor standing on the opposite side of the desk. Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is st...