Though the railroad bridge has been destroyed at Rocchette Piovene, the enemy is firing shots in retaliation, and the Isonzo river is low, yet the Duke of Aosta's troops advance towards Gorizia step b...
Fridtjof Nansen was the leader of The League of Nations' repatriation work for prisoners of war after World War I. This film shows a LN meeting in Geneva, probably in 1920, and soldiers on their way ...
French Prisoners of War II - Belgian Civilian Prisoners of War Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film came...
After demonstrating their cruelty through a number of incidents, including one in which a German officer kills a lame shoemaker in Zabern, Germany, the German troops invade Belgium. As World War I pro...
A film about the three friends from a village below Karlštejn castle, one of which returns home from the war as a Russian, the second as a French legionnaire and the third as an Italian legionnaire. ...
Destruction inside the Soissons cathedral and a visit from the President of the Republic soon before the Chemin des Dames offensive. A city is damaged and a bridge is destroyed over the Aisne river. D...
The progression of an offensive: advancing to the front line and progress in the trenches, engineering work, artillery preparation; officers around a map preparing the assault, H-hour and leaving the ...
The July 20, 1916 offensive in the Somme: troop movements, artillery preparations, the assault and capture of prisoners. English artillery in camp and in action. Visit from General Joffre and Presiden...
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....