I. The build-up to war from the earliest days of film record, showing the various crowned heads of Europe.II. The Balkan wars of 1912, the development of Germany's Navy, and the inauguration of Presid...
(Reel 1) Material from various phases of the Somme offensive without regard for logical or chronological continuity. The film opens with the unloading of supply trains, and soldiers on the march to th...
(Reel 9) A bombardment in progress. Mk I tanks move up. Fatigue parties (described as "doctors") move forwards. Prisoners are brought in and the captured area mopped up. The German Crown Prince's head...
Indian soldiers resting after a march. An Indian water-truck column refilling their trucks from a river using hosepipes and pumps. The construction of a sandbag observation tower, and British troops o...
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.
(Reel 1) The opening shows the destruction near Bapaume and Péronne caused by the German retreat. Buildings have been blown up, trees cut down. A British cyclist patrol is greeted by the population o...
A balloon of 23rd Kite Balloon Company defended by a 13-pounder anti-aircraft gun on a lorry mount. A crashed RE8 reconnaissance aircraft (compare with the same scene in IWM 68 MESOPOTAMIA - DIYALA RI...
A column of Ford light trucks carrying "supplies". (Compare with the same scene in IWM 68). Men of the Gurkha Rifles moving through an RFA park. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment, wading...
At the door stands mother of Jiří Voldán (actress: Marie Ptáková) with the guard. On the bunks sit prisoners.
Under the gallow stands Jiří (actor: Vladimir Chinkulov Vladimírov), his fiancée Maryša (actress: Suzanne Marwille) embraces him. Some cadavers lay around.
Jiří Voldán (actor: Vladimír Ch. Vladimírov) with bandaged head stands in uniform near the barred window.
Mother of Jiří Voldán (actress: Marie Ptáková) and two policemen.
Wide shot of a standing train occupied by Russian officers and regular soldiers. A group of Austrian soldiers stands in front of the train. Several of them are wearing armbands of the Red Cross.
Exterior view of a train. Six Russian soldiers (prisoners of war) with Asian features are sitting or standing in the train's open door. Some of the soldiers are holding bread in their hands and all ar...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor with Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský). Other patients can be seen...
Wide shot depicting the activity in front of a stopped train. Combat medics are carrying Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) from the train on a stretcher; Rjepkin is covered with a blanket....