(Reel 11) The film-makers state "We think it is well that we should have been given an opportunity in this episode to show you these terrible fields that were trampled by our deathless allies in their...
(Reel 13) After the opening with 'Justice', the episode consists entirely of unrelated scenes of the Western Front. Scottish troops in long-shot carrying barbed wire. The officer of a tunnelling compa...
Unrelated scenes with no continuity or storyline, mainly taken from the GERMAN OFFENSIVE series of Spring 1918, showing the British sector of the Western Front between March and April 1918. An additio...
The fatal consequences of accidentally letting the enemy discover secret information are illustrated by an episode set in the trenches. Orders for an attack are passed down from Hindenburg to GHQ to o...
Lefrancois, a father of six, is a soldier. His seventh child is on the way and will be named Victory. Lefrancois cannot remember why he tied a knot in his handkerchief. Although he has received the Wa...
The daily life of the 44th battalion of Senegalese infantrymen (Tirailleurs sénégalais): parade with music in a mountainous countryside, digging trenches in a forest, return to camp, cooking and mea...
Panorama taken from high ground over the town of Epernay in France, 7 June 1918.
'THE TOWN OF LILLE: The ruined appearance of the Manchester of France gives an idea of what would happen to English towns if the Germans were able to land in England'. Four shots, taken from a high an...
Wolfgang Filzinger