Prince Heinrich of Prussia visits the Russian Orthodox Church at Kovno (Russian Poland) after the Russian retreat of summer 1915. A beached and burnt-out Russian steamer is shown on the bank of the Ri...
The film starts with the President leaving his guest château at Montreuil to the salute of the British escort, tipping his hat to the camera and driving off. At 4pm on 11 October he and Field Marshal...
The map, in stop-frame action, shows the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, followed by a more detailed version of the Allied advance to victory between July and November 1918. The Allied ...
I. 'BALKAN REFUGEES. Turk, Bulgar and Greek refugees seeking work, are examined and photographed before receiving their pass.' Two British soldiers manhandle dishevelled refugees into line. Each man h...
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...
Drill and musketry instruction. On sentry training British and French sentries together stop a staff car to check the occupants. Out in the country, the trainees cut brushwood for hurdles. They learn ...
The film uses wire-controlled cutout shapes, white on a black background, to demonstrate in plan view a column of three lorries driving too close together down a road and colliding in a shunting accid...
The film starts with a scene meant to be of the mole at Zeebrugge in 1914 (in fact showing a British Caledon Class cruiser in 1917 or 1918 at another location). The mole after the British occupation o...