Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.
For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus the documentary How We Fought the Emden.
Wounded and left for dead, a British soldier in the midst of the First World War embarks on a daring escape from a booby-trapped German dugout.
Soldiers representing South Africa and New Zealand billeted in London get stuck in during a rugby fixture in Richmond Park.
A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.
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.
In the year 1915, while the world starts falling apart, a husband comes home to his wife with bad news
Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.
Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.
Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.
A black comedy about a man impersonating a spy in the midst of World War I.
In the midst of a battlefield in Flanders during the First World War, British soldier Eddie finds himself facing a mysterious figure who reveals himself to be the god of the dead, Thanatos. He offers him a game - a game for his life. But Eddie is already tormented by the memories of his fallen comrades and the woman who was torn from his life shortly after their wedding. The demons won't let him go. And the game begins...
Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel engine, was highly sought after by global industries and political figures around the world. It had the power to threaten empires and change the fate of nations, turning him and his technology into both a prized asset and a potential threat.
Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.
The daughter of famed actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree gets hitched to a military Captain during WWI.
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.
This intriguing and beautifully-shot newsreel features sea-faring heroes, feisty females and a generous lick of paint for a Mississippi steamship.
Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.
Tommy's Christmas parcels are despatched to the Front in a fleet of trucks.