An actress "Britannia" draws aside a curtain over a screen, flanked by silhouettes of two British soldiers. On the screen appears a genuine scene of refugees fleeing out of Belgium in 1914, followed b...
Reel 1. 1. Intertitle: The harvest. The flax stalks are not cut, but picked. Image: Russians POWs pick flax stalks under the supervision of a German soldier; children gather bundles of flax, which are...
<p>Unidentified film, probably three different reportage films, with Danish intertitles:<br>The attack at Monticello.<br>A pigeon transports a message.<br>Alpine soldiers issue...
Little Momi’s father has left to be a soldier and his letters are eagerly anticipated by his family at home. In one of them he recounts the adventure of little highlander Berto, who saved his mother...
The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...
The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
On the ground, men try to control a dirigible's cables to help it land near a hangar. Once again in flight, this dirigible meets another, Astra dirigible.
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
"King And President - The King of the Belgians and President Poincaré leaving Furnes after an inspection of the French Cavalry in the market square".
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
Die Freundinnen Steffi, Lea, Toni und Maja sind Ende 30 und kennen sich seit ihrer Jugend, genauer gesagt seit 26 Jahren. Damals, als Teenager, gaben sie sich das Versprechen einer gemeinsamen Hochzei...
Nach dem Tod der Großmutter Bertha erbt Iris das alte Familienhaus in Bootshaven. Die ganze Familie kehrt an den erinnerungsträchtigen Ort zurück, doch Iris ist sich nicht sicher, ob sie bleiben od...
Im Gegensatz zu Großbritannien, Polen und den skandinavischen Ländern scheint Motorcycle Speedway, oder einfach Speedway, in Deutschland heute eine kaum beachtete Randsportart zu sein. Doch dies war...
Deutschland, 1957. Der Staatsanwalt Fritz Bauer erhält entscheidende Hinweise über den Aufenthaltsort des SS-Obersturmbannführers Adolf Eichmann. Dieser gehörte zu den führenden Köpfen im Hitler...
Dokumentarfilm über die Folgen des Bürgerkriegs in Sri Lanka (1983-2009) und eine überlebende Kämpferin: Als Vetrichelvi aufwuchs, war der jahrzehntelange Krieg bereits in vollem Gange. Mit 17 ent...
Verfilmung des Romans von Ferdinand von Schirach. Als der 85 Jahre alte Industrielle Hans Meyer im Berliner Hotel Adlon ermordet wird, tappen die Ermittler zunächst im Dunkeln. Umso größer ist das ...
When villager Elías happens to discover a World War II plane wreck in an Icelandic glacier, he hast no idea that he has got in the way of a top-secret military operation of the U.S. Army who attempt ...
Zweiter Teil der Millenium-Trilogie nach den Romanen von Stieg Larsson: Dem Enthüllungsjournalisten Mikael Blomkvist wird durch einen Kollegen eine hochbrisante Story zugespielt. Namhafte Persönlich...