I. 'U.S.A. v MEXICO. In view of the grave situation the American fleet, prepared for all eventualities sails for Mexican waters.' MS off the starboard bow of USS Michigan - the frame cuts the picture ...
A film about the three friends from a village below Karlštejn castle, one of which returns home from the war as a Russian, the second as a French legionnaire and the third as an Italian legionnaire. ...
I. 'MUNITION WORKERS CANTEEN: Women after working on munitions enjoying an excellent dinner served in the canteen at actual cost'. After a brief scene of the women at their workbenches, the sizeable c...
The headlines of the national newspapers announce that Romania has declared war on Austria-Hungary (on August 27, 1916). General mobilization of the Romanian army. On a country road, the troops march ...
Lord Rhondda, the Minister of Food, arrives by car. With him is the Mayor of West Ham, Mr Will Thorne MP. A crowd of men, women and children queue with jugs at the kitchen windows to have soup dispens...
(Missing is an opening sequence showing the tearing up of the treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality.) 'Martyred Belgium' is the title introducing 'scene 2'. Britannia posed beside the figure of 'Belg...
Women wait for Karl and Zita to arrive at Feldkirch station, and strew flowers in their path as they get into their carriages. With Karl are Adjutant Lobkovitz and Archduke Eugen. A line of men from t...
Two girl fitters of Queen Mary's Auxiliary Ambulance Corps doing maintenance work on the wheels and the engine of their ambulance. (Rather staged, the girls are trying very hard not to be camera-consc...
Volunteer Bárta (laborer) encounters his wife.
Tomeš encounters his wife and son after the return from the war. Tomeš hugs his son. His wife stands nearby and smiles at Janda and Bárta.
Reunion of families after war. In the middle stand Tomeš, Janda and Bárta in uniforms of volunteers. Women sit behind and sons talk with fathers.
View of a hospital room. In the centre of the image, cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad) is lying on a bed and hugging his mother (actress: Marie Ptáková), who is sitting next to him. Rjepkin is ...