The First World War (1934)

November 8, 1934 (US) • Documentary, War • 78m

Overview

Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World War I from inception to conclusion. Alternating with scenes of trench warfare and intimate glimpses of European royalty at home, and scenes of conflict at sea combined with sequences of films from the secret archives of many of the involved nations.

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Top Billed

Pedro de Cordoba

Keywords

uniform berlin, germany london, england paris, france world war i pilot us army turkey royalty soldier machine gun stock footage newsreel trench warfare