Flak fired at enemy aircraft; engineers surmount a watercourse with a makeshift bridge; detonation of a hand grenade; shell impacts in the forest (barrage); engineers mine an underground shelter; layi...
A short report on the strategic importance of the trenches near the village of Cernay. These started in the outskirts of Reims and ran through houses and gardens to get to the frontlines of the battle...
"Der Feind hört mit" is a propaganda film showing the unintentional effects of a negligent comment made by one German radio operator which causes the loss of many German lives. The slogan "Feind hör...
„The seeds of fruit must not be grounded“ – this quote by Goethe was often used by artist Käthe Kollwitz to argue for peace. Her work on her famous anti-war monument and thinking about how an a...
Australian sappers wearing shrapnel helmets dig a trench system traced out with a line, shoring up the completed trenches with corrugated iron and A-frames, and fitting duckboards. An Australian diggi...
A very broken film. A gunner with two horses out of control plunges past startled soldiers in a trench. Explosions in the distance. A view of no man's land. 18-pounder field guns are brought up past a...
Opening with a pan over a group of Australian soldiers of various divisions wearing their bush hats and watching the exercise. This is followed by the exercise itself. Australian troops in full battle...
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry parade with the standard presented by the Princess, and march to the trenches. They enter heading towards "Prowse Point", the shallow, waterlogged trench wh...
01078 - Rubescourt - Front line (Somme department, Picardie) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
3219 - Chevreux 1917 - at the front line (Cheuvreux?)
Wolfgang Filzinger, trench near Pontfaverger, May 1915
Jiří (actor: Vladimir Chinkulov Vladimírov) looks out the rench. A pillar with the barbed wire is in the foreground.
The battle of Zborov: volunteer Tomeš with a machine gun in the trench. Another soldiers helps him with the magazine.
The battle of Zborov: Austrian trenches.
The battle of Zborov: Tomeš in the foreground and other two soldiers with rifles and bayonets in the trench.
The battle of Zborov: Countdown before the assault.