" THE GREAT WAR " 1956 WORLD WAR 1 DOCUMENTARY FILM WWI 1914-1918 29554
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This 1956 film about World War I was produced by NBC as part of the "Project Twenty" series. The music was written by Robert Russell Bennett and narrated by Alexander Scourby. German soldiers parade prior to WWI. Kaiser Wilhelm II is greeted by England’s King George and Queen Mary (1:35-3:22). Russian Czar Nicolas II views his troops. Austria-Hungary Emperor Joseph. Belgium King Albert rides with the Kaiser (3:23-4:45). 1914 newspapers declare the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. World leaders discuss war (4:46-5:30). Germany christens a ship. Battleship guns are tested (4:46-6:45). Austria declares war on Serbia. A woman buys a Kaiser pin. Pocket flowers are handed to troops. Troops wave from train windows (6:46-8:22). Repeated cannon fire hits buildings in Belgium. Belgium troops hide in trenches. German troops take prisoners (8:23-9:40). A German soldier kicks a dog. Destroyed buildings are interspersed with German troops’ faces and marching boot shadows (9:41-10:20). The Union Jack flies amid smoke. Shown are the HMS Lance (G87) and HNLMS Van Galen (G84). Cigarette-smoking soldiers on deck (10:21-11:21). In Paris, taxi cabs are used to transport soldiers. A close-up shows elderly hands clasped in prayer. Belgium women and children evacuate (11:22-12:55). In the U.S., a woman in 1914 clothing mails a letter. Ice is delivered out of a B. David Ice & Coal horse-drawn wagon. A trolley advertises a Belgian Relief Rally. The Daily Eagle declares “America Remains Neutral” (12:56-13:35). New York streets bustle. Passengers wave from the Lusitania as it leaves the harbor. Passengers relax. Only the periscope of a German U-boat moves through the water. A torpedo moves through the water. Onboard footage shows panic as water pours in. Wreckage floats on the water. The newspaper says “Sub Sinks Lusitania.” An effigy is marched through the streets. A church signs says “Lusitania Memorial Service” (13:36-16:54). Pacifist protesters march with signs. The Capital and White House are shown. President Wilson addresses a large crowd about peace. Former President Theodore Roosevelt speaks vehemently against neutrality. Marchers carry signs calling for war. President Wilson sits at a paper-laden desk. Secretary of State Lansing and Secretary of War Baker telephone. Secretary of the Navy Daniels pinpoints locations on a large globe. “U.S. Declares War” headlines (16:55-20:49). Wilson chooses a paper from a bowl as part of the draft. Men in 1914 clothing with straw hats march, then in military uniforms. Soldiers practice with wooden guns. Liberty Bonds posters are shown. Actors Marie Dressler, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Vaudeville performers encourage crowds to buy Liberty Bonds. U.S. troops board ships (20:50-24:15). The troops entertain themselves with dice, sack races, greased pole fights, boxing, and dancing with each other (24:44-26:15). The American Expeditionary Force arrives in France. Troops march in front of General “Blackjack” Pershing. Troops visit the Arc de Triomphe, eat at cafes, and dance with French women to piano music (26:16-28:08). Flanders Field is shown in different seasons. Barbed wire fence is mangled. Dead soldiers. Graves are marked by guns with helmets on top. Wounded are carried in blanket stretchers. Doctors and nurses treat wounded (28:09-29:29). Soldiers from various countries inhabit the muddy trenches. A soldier cleans his bayonet
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Fred Zag
prieš 2 mėnesius
Watched many war films, and couldn't get to the underlying reason for World War I, until someone wrote in the comments, it was a nice piece of land that both countries wanted to fight for. They showed the country on the map, the land . I missed it! Land ownership is an important part of freedom as the original statement written in the USA constitution is the pursuit of life, liberty, and land! But was taken out, the land that is.
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Irwansyah Tour Guide
prieš 8 mėnesius
The Great War was started with the assasination of Austrian emperor and his wife by a Serbo Bosnian youngman named Gavrilo Princip on 28 July 1914. Afterwards Austria, Hungary, and Germany declared war against Great Britain, Italy, France, and Russia. Great Britain, Italy, France, and Russia also declared war against Austria, Hungary, and Russia. Turkey joined the Axis powers in the war. During the war, Great Britain produced tank for the first time and was seen for the first time in action against the Germans in the Battle of Somme and Passchendale in France ( 1915-916 ). The British also mobilised the New Zealanders, Indians, Australians, and Canadians as Commonwealth troops.
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MelioraCogito
prieš 2 dienas (redaguota)
Instead of the Great War being the "war to end all wars," the crippling economic reparations imposed upon Germany by Britain, France, Italy and (to a much lesser degree) the United States in the Treaty of Versailles following the war, sowed the seeds for the rise of Nazism in Germany during the early 1930s.
The inter-war period was not a time of "peace" per se, it was a mutually agreed upon ceasefire that happened to last barely 21 years, where in the interim, Germany would once again regain its confidence as a nation, rising out of the ashes if its economic malaise of the 1920's (in part imposed by the Allies) and build itself once again into a seemingly formidable and unstoppable European industrial and military power that would sweep across the continent – this time with such ferocity and brutal vengeance on a scale never before witnessed in history.
And once again, the Americans would pretend to play "neutral" until it had poked the Imperial Japanese hornets' nest too many times, thereby ensuring it would be dragged back into a conflagration, this time spanning the entire globe.
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Teresa C
prieš 2 savaites
First of all, let me say I haven't watched this. I started to, but the music at the beginning told me this wasn't going to be 14-18, not really, it was going to be pretty much biased towards the Americans coming over for the last year. Judging from the timings, I was right. How can 14-17 be rammed into the first fifteen or so minutes, then 1918 (or, more accurately the USA) take up the rest of it? I lost over 35 family members and extended family members during WW1 (three on one day at Jutland), and to call this anything but "The Last Year Of The Great War" is an insult.
It's no wonder that so many Americans believe that the USA won the First World War. It's also no wonder so many of them are unaware when the war actually started!
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Chela McGuire
prieš 2 mėnesius
What a tremendous video. Thank you for posting it for all of us to view. I was thrilling to see so much footage that I'd never before viewed. The music was very well thought out and blended beautifully with the images. Very lifting. I lost my great grandfather in the battle of the Somme and my surviving great grandfather was to be the only one of 18 to return to his village
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smitajky
prieš 2 mėnesius
The first world war was supposed to be the war to end all wars. We had miles of trees lining roads each one representing a local lad killed. And we had Gallipoli taught about. But despite "lest we forget" no one would talk about it. I knew a lot about the second world war but the first one was so devastating that those who returned kept silent. It was just too horrible to describe. It has only been the last 20 years or so that I have found out about more than the broadest of outlines of that war.
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