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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 5 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 9) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The tank race and demonstration of a tank climbing over a cottage arranged for George V's visit to France in July 1917. Post-war tests of Mark V Star tanks....

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 6 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(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...

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 7 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(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...

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 8 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 15) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, gives a public speech from an Army staff car. A montage of women and men operating various metal presses, drop hamm...

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 9 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 17) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Thereafter the first part is a re-edited version of IWM 303 GERMAN NAVAL INACTIVITIES and IWM 358 ZEEBRUGGE, showing German sailors in Ostend prior to the ...

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 10 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 19) The episode starts with 'Justice' followed by the badge of the British Intervention Force. The actuality material opens with British troops boarding SS Carlotta at Tilbury docks, in May 1918...

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 11 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 21) The episode starts with 'Justice' and captioned newspaper clippings, "British forces in peril... more important than Kut". The decision to send the relief force on 4th April 1919 is reported...

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the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 12 [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 23) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Bayonet drill and a marchpast by the Northamptonshire Regiment. A marchpast and open air meal from the Cheshire Regiment, and a portrait shot of "Private J...

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