WWI Archival Movies

[John Wagenseil]

WWI archival films
Videos | filmportal.de[]=678
Combat footage
Training films
Richtofen's victims
In flight movies in R-Plane
A7V film
Captured tank evaluation
See a senior officer go teutonic when driver trainee misses ramp and takes out a street lamp.
Nach der Tankschlacht bei Cambrai Dezember 1917 | Video | filmportal.de
Gothas (real and fake footage)
Trench railway trains
Artillery being pulled up to the front by diary cows
Mud
Bodies
Propaganda and General Misery

For some reason, the German Command, unlike the British and French, allowed more filming, and also possession of private cameras in combat zones. The misery of WWI combat was preserved to a much greater extent by German photographers than by the Allies.

[thorst]

I'd like to add this spectacular footage of navy-Zeppelins:
Probefahrt zweier Marineluftschiffe | Video | filmportal.de