Movies: World war i

An aviator heads out in his fighter plane to fight in WWI, and his girlfriend watches as he leaves and waits for his return....

This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in the aircraft industry as well as the tempting prospect of a fun social life. (source: British Film I...

Part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume examines the events of 1917, when the Allies launched desperate attacks on the German lines with huge casualties, but with little result. By the end of the year,...

The absolute art of a Sales Pitch in a perfect example (made for a History project)....

Documentary, one of a series, showing Great Britain's participation in the First World War. This entry depicts the fighting, waiting, labor, and logistics of the successful British effort to push back the German army at Arras....

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front....

Public anxiety about war from the air is all too real for the people of Ramsgate in this newsreel footage of the aftermath of a Zeppelin raid....

An outlook on Wilhelm von Habsburg, an aristocrat who wanted to become the King of Ukraine and thus became an early fighter for the independence of Ukraine after World War 1....

Based on a true event. With the exception of ten days, Fritz Winter experienced the entire First World War at the front. This short movie is based on his letters to Martha. Her part of the conversation is lost, unfortunately. However Fritz's letter...

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Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor....

"The Road to War" uses elaborate and fascinating computer-generated recreations and archives never seen before to examine how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire to start a war against Serbia....

At the end of August 1914 Leuven became the victim of blind rage war. Virtually the entire city center was systematically destroyed by the Germans. War journalist Rudi Vranckx explains what happened....

From the beginning to the end, this is what happened during WW1. Told by genuine oral testimony recorded and saved by the Imperial War Museum. Presented as a complete history of the large and small components of what made that terrible time in our 20...

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This educational film was compiled from original footage from 1917. It shows, among other things, guns, troop transports in the port of Libau and a bombardment of the Russian coastal batteries on Ösel with on-board artillery....

Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter....

A combination of Lightning Sketches along with stop-motion animation illustrate England's reactions and responses in World War One....

Concerns the First World War. The images are authentic and made by the film service of the French army. Shots showing the proceedings of the war in various places in France and Belgium, such as Reims, Aisne, Verdun, Flanders, Froideterre, Vaux, Fism...

Neurologist Max Nonne demonstrates a therapeutic procedure and its successes by means of suggestion in hypnosis for functional-motor disorders that arose as a result of the effects of the First World War....