World War One

The History Channel examines the awkward kit issued to the American Army in 1910 and carried throughout the First World War.

A quick clip from a contemporary U.S. Army news broadcast concerning the development of the U.S. Army in World War One.

A terrific collection of images mixed with the music of the era.

More than 3,500 Canadians died taking the Ridge and 7,000 more were wounded. Previous French attacks came at a cost of 200,000 dead with little or no ground gained. The Canadians accomplished what was said to be “impossible” as the ridge was thought to be impregnable.

Recently, a retired American army officer retraced the steps of Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Alvin York during his heroic stand-off in the Argonne Forrest in the autumn of 1918. Nothing new seemed to have been discovered, but it’s fun to watch anyway.

A documentary outlining the roll German submarines and the Zimmerman telegram played in leading the United States into WW I.

A segment from a documentary concerning the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and all those who attended it as representatives. Nice footage of Paris and Versailles.

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A film clip from the Military channel about the Springfield and it’s place in the history of world weaponry.

Rolls Royce Armoured Car. Covering the period 1914 to 1950. Used in conflicts including The Great War, the Irish War for independence, The Second World War and the formation of The State of Israel.

Nieuport XI’s were first used in 1915. Their biplane design allowed them to easily outmaneuver their German Fokker Eindecker (“monoplane”) counter parts. Armed with a single 7.7 Lewis machine gun on the top wing element, the system was primed to make aces of her pilots – at least until German aircraft design caught up with this XI series. If the Nieuport XI had any drawback, it was the limited armament and the propensity of the wing assembly to buckle violently in flight, sometimes breaking apart.

A U.S. Government camera crew tours the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in France, resting place of the American Doughboys who were killed during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918.

A segment from a the British documentary, “War Without End”:

Summer 1918. The last German offensive failed to break the Allies. Unrest bordering on revolution at home spread demoralization to the German army. The central Powers’s alliance was crumbling with Turkey exhausted, Bulgaria beaten, and Austro-Hungary trying to work its own armistice with the Allies.

The first part in the series of World War One coloured films. Impressive re-fashioned coloured footage of scenes from the prelude and beginning of the war.

A moving interview with a British veteran is accompanied by informative historical audio and rare World War One footage of the unexpected German retreat of 1917.

World War I Imperial German Submarine (UB109) sunk off Dover by remote charge. A U.K. diving club has adopted this wreck and made this short film.

Rare footage of the British Mark IV tank mixed with additional clips of British infantry in the trenches and on the attack.

A moving collection of World War I era photographs which show the earliest of the Australian graves on a number of different fronts; France, Belgium the Middle-East.