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.
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.
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
หนังสารคดีที่ ปีเตอร์ แจ็กสัน นำฟุตเทจสงครามโลกครั้งที่หนึ่งมาบูรณะใหม่ ทั้งใส่สี ปรับความคมชัด และเพิ่มเสียง โดยมีเพียงเสียงบอกเล่าจากทหารผ่านศึกเท่านั้น ทำให้ผู้ชมได้สัมผัสชีวิตในแนวหน้าและความโหดร้ายของสงครามอย่างใกล้ชิด
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
ในสงครามโลกครั้งที่หนึ่ง นายพลฝรั่งเศสสั่งให้ทหารโจมตีตำแหน่งที่มั่นของเยอรมัน แม้จะรู้ว่าเป็นภารกิจที่แทบเป็นไปไม่ได้ เมื่อการโจมตีล้มเหลวอย่างน่าเศร้า นายพลกลับสั่งลงโทษประหารทหารสามนายเพื่อเป็นแพะรับบาป ผู้พันแด็กซ์ ทนายความในชีวิตพลเรือน พยายามปกป้องลูกน้องของเขาจากการตัดสินที่ไม่ยุติธรรมนี้ เผยให้เห็นความไร้เหตุผลและความโหดร้ายของอำนาจในสงคราม
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.