https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8bb07e59-5b31-4199-9010-40895595c9cf Directed by Tom Bret and captured by Albert K. Dawson for The American Correspondent Film Co., “The Battles of a Nation” (1915) is a black-and-white newsreel film chronicling famous battles from World War I. The compiled newsreel footage included largely depicts scenes of the German Drive on Belgium and other battles from along the Western Front. Additionally, the film includes footage of the Indian troops who fought as part of the British Indian Army in France and Belgium. Enumeration of the prisoners, POWs line up for camera (0:08). Soldiers load film into camera strapped to horse (0:48). Austro-Hungarian Army approaches Warsaw, Poland; Join rest of King Leopold’s victorious army (1:17). Title page (1:30). Soldiers walk along snowy terrain (1:32). Bombardment of Mt. San Gabriele (September 11, 1917): Austrian forces hide out in trenches, Italian shells bursting (1:38). Montage shots of field artillery Central Powers: German 28 cm MRK L/35 (3:00). After battle, Belgian Red Cross cares for wounded: Medics run toward battlefield with wheeled stretcher (4:13). Debris of crashed Belgian steam locomotive after it was launched at full speed toward German Army (4:28). Bombardment of Ghent, smoke billows from bombed buildings (4:42). British S.S. Empress arrives in Ostend, Belgium with 22,000 Belgian troops to support Allies, formerly used to transport equipment for the Eastchurch Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service (5:10). East Indian troops arrive in Furness, France as part of British Indian Army; Locals observe from sidewalk as soldiers march through town alongside horse-drawn carts of supplies (6:49). Bombardment of Ostend (7:31). Gen. Baron Bohomme, Commander of Belgian Army, on horseback with other high ranking Belgian officials (8:15). Ruins of Melle, only frames of bombed out buildings remain (8:34). Ruins of village of Termonde, camera pans frames of bombed out buildings, soldiers search debris for trapped residents (9:25). Hollowed out hallways of once prosperous art museum in Termonde (10:36). Refugee family in ash-covered clothing stand holding young children in front of rubble of home (10:54). Defensive barbed wire entanglements in Waelhem (11:16). Indian soldiers deployed to fight as part of Ypres Salient, charge on foot alongside Belgian counterparts on horseback (11:46). Allied forces traverse pontoon bridge (12:33). Medics lift injured soldiers onto make-shift field gurneys (13:13). German troops of Kaiser Wilhelm II: Troops stand amid rubble of destroyed town, gather artillery in trenches, charge across battlefield (14:37). German soldier operates what is likely a Maschinengewehr 08 machine gun (16:13). Montage of likely German artillery: 42-centimetre kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12, 15 cm Kanone 16, 28 cm MRK L/35 (16:39). After battle Red Cross dogs guide medics to wounded soldiers (17:46). Belgian cavalry and field artillery retreating from Antwerp: Some soldiers on foot, other pull horse-drawn cart along tree-lined road next to rail tracks (18:54). Belgian infantry retreating to new base following fall of Aalst (20:38). Arrival of British Life Guards in Belgium: Belgians line city streets as British soldiers arrive with supplies (21:00). Allied forces search for bodies in ruins of Slype (21:56). Belgian guns captured by Germans at Siege of Antwerp: Rows and rows of artillery organized in cleared out field (22:15). Largely women and children, some men flee Antwerp during siege along tree-lined road, train tracks (22:40). German airplane shot down by Belgian gunmen; Belgians look through debris of shot down plane (23:51). Belgian infantry move into action at Aalst (24:10). Views from inside destroyed church, unexploded shell still stuck in wall (25:26). Belgian Carabinier Bicyclists move in to defend Leuven, Flemish artillery (25:58). Remnants of exploded Belgian cannon (26:52). German POWs captured by Belgians, some injured with bandages across faces (27:08). Dutch people in Roosendaal, Netherlands aid Belgian refugees fleeing fighting - hand out food, supplies in center (27:44). Camera pans port with parked German cargo ships, soldiers line upper deck, supplies waiting to be loaded line port (28:20). Film ends (29:25). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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