Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semidocumentary to cruel melodra...
The centenary of Belgium got Gaston Roudes inspired to write this screenplay about a troubled marriage between a Flemish and a Walloon. Remarkable time document, intended as an artistic milestone of p...
Men entering the side entrance of Rudolfinum, women, clergymen and Austro-Hungarian army officers. Guard at the entry. View of carriages outside. People leaving Rudolfinum. The very event is not captu...
Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisat...
The film is slightly disjointed and concentrates almost exclusively on the parade ground. The station clearly operates aircraft (which are never seen) for some of the men, mixed indiscriminately with ...
"The 5th Royal Scots who have volunteered for the Front in training." Soldiers, including some very young teenagers, march past a camp of white tents erected in summer countryside. Scenes of camp life...
I. Low-angle medium shot of dazzle painted hull of SS War Forest on slipway. Pan across crowd of soldiers and civilian workers, some of whom cheer and wave to camera. Medium close-up of (?) Lord Pirri...
The R36 is nose-forward in its shed. Workers turn a large capstan to wind back the doors of the shed and the airship is towed out. It is clearly marked as R36 and as G-FAAF. It takes off from its laun...
A group of civilians and policemen. In the middle stands infantryman Kubík (actor: Václav Kubásek) on suit. Next to Kubík stands a woman on skirt and shawl.
Czechoslovak volunteers on a small station in Siberia. In the foreground is a Russian woman.
Wounded soldiers rest on camp beds in front of the hospital building.
Mother of Jiří Voldán (actress: Marie Ptáková) in the female prison. Another women sit on the bed. At the door stands a soldier.
After the mobilization: women hold on men and cry. On the left Janda (smith), the second one is Tomeš (farmer).
Wounded Austrian soldier accompanied by nurses and military doctors.
Wounded soldiers eat in a hospital room.
A military doctor shows a wounded soldier to a Red Cross delegation.