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.
A German officer addresses his men in a dugout. They emerge from the dugout and man their trench against an Australian attack. The Australians storm the trench and throw grenades down into the dugouts...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
French language version of a newsreel item on the town of Amiens after the German failure to capture it, showing a pan over the town and the outside of the cathedral, Western Front, 5th-7th April 1918...
(Reel 1) Off the British coast, U-boat 32 attacks merchant ships. The German captain, Stackmeyer, is saluted by his Admiral, who warns that the blockade of Britain will be tightened; later, the U-boat...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on the funeral of Baron Manfred von Richthofen ('the Red Baron') at Bertangles, Western Front, 22nd April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel ...
I. Newsreel item showing the remains of the Cloth Hall and water tower at Ypres, Western Front, March-April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on the Earl of Scarborough inspecting 1...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on King George V and Queen Mary visiting wounded survivors of the Zeebrugge raid, probably at Chatham, April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a news...
Newsreel about a group of youngsters flying over Brussels and the World's Fair.
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...