Pathé-Journal newsreel on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on the 28th of June 1914. Shown are the Franz Joseph st...
The "Lone Wolf," a thief before World War I, crosses enemy lines in the midst of battle and finally reaches the British trenches, where Lieutenant Thackeray, formerly of Scotland Yard, commissions him...
The 2nd of August 1914 - mobilization day. French troops invade German territory and occupy an inn. The innkeeper's daughter reports the attack. The French soldiers are overpowered.
„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...
The 1978 documentary Matrosen in Berlin (Sailors in Berlin) deals with the history of the Volksmarinedivision (People’s Naval Division) in Berlin in the turbulent period right after the end of World...
Wanda works at the Garbaty cigarette factory. Her boss, cigarette manufacturer Heinrich Löbel, is smitten. After a rendezvous Wanda asks her boss to marry her but he was hoping for another outcome fo...
1914: The assistants of cobbler Lehmann compete for the affections of his daughter Frieda. Actually she’s in love with her ambitious cousin Fritz, but the cunning Franz knows how to charm her. When ...
G. W. Pabst’s anti-war classic tells the story of four German soldiers on the Western Front in France in the last year of the First World War. The Bavarian sees the war primarily as an adventure. Th...