Bontoc children engage in athletics in the Philippines. Filipino schoolgirls play volleyball. Mrs. Evans, the American head of a public school in Bontoc (the historical capital of the Cordillera region), accompany Bontoc girls in the school grounds. Filipino women teachers accompany Mrs. Evans and the girls. Girls parade on school grounds. Exteriors of an American-style school building, constructed of brick by an ingenious schoolteacher visitor from Minnesota. Native Bontoc children participate in athletic events like racing and jumping.
Aftermath of Allied bombing in Germany during World War II. Aerial view of fields. A bombed out bridge over a river. Flak bursts as they float in air. High mountainous region with clouds over the mountains.
A film about the role of African American soldiers during various wars in the United States. A dramatization shows a black soldier during the Spanish American War. He also talks about his role in Cuba and the construction of the Panama Canal. Footage of the Panama Canal being constructed and ships underway in the canal. United States Army forces including black soldiers boarding troop transport ships bound for Europe during World War 1. A railroad train carries African American soldiers to France during World War I. African American soldier units under General Pershing march in formation with an Army band in France during World War 1. African American soldiers work and fight against the Germans, including the 813th Pioneer Regiment near Marseilles, the 332nd Labor Battalion, and the 808th Pioneer Regiment near Verdun. African American soldiers racing for front lines including the soldiers with the 8th Illinois and the 372nd regiment and the 371st, and the 369th Infantry Regiment in the Argonne. View from behind soldier as he fires a machine gun, and United States Army infantry firing artillery. African American soldiers of the 369th regiment being decorated and receiving the French Croix de Guerre for their heroic actions in World War I. The African American soldiers march at a parade in New York City following World War I and are greeted by throngs of enthusiastic African American civilians attending the parade. View of Henry Johnson being congratulated by civilians after he and Needham Roberts performed with exceptional heroism and received the Croix de Guerre. Close up view of the Croix de Guerre medal on a uniform. Graves of African American soldiers who lost their lives during World War I at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. View of the All-Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors in Logan Square in Philadelphia (Logan Square, SE corner 20th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). View of a stone memorial erected in the Meuse-Argonne region, north of Sechault, as a tribute to the efforts of the African American soldiers of the 371st Infantry Regiment who fought and died there on April 21, 1918 during World War 1.
Canadian troops in West Flanders, Belgium near Ypres and Albert during World War 1. An animated map shows the region and the Somme River. Canadian troops hunkered down in grass and shrubs on a hill overlooking flat terrain. Shells exploding on horizon in background. A large contingent of Canadian troops marching downhill with left-shouldered arms. Senior officers walk out of a courtyard gate. Next, General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence, is seen shaking hands with several officers. Scene shifts, after he greets only two, and shows Canadian troops marching in platoons along a dusty road. Next, Canadian soldiers are seen moving supplies by horse-drawn wagons along a tree-lined road leading into a town. Final scenes show the war-damaged Albert Basilica. The camera pans upward, along its tower, to the Golden Virgin statue at its top, which is leaning precariously to one side, almost falling off its base. (The statue became the subject of British superstition that the war would end when the statue fell. But British artillery, itself, knocked it down while targeting the tower to prevent its use by the Germans as an observation post, during the 1918 Spring offensive)
Belgian civilian refugee women and children walking with their belongings on road in Rahier, Stoumont, Walloon Region, Belgium. Refugee women on road carry children, bedding and luggage. View of refugees with children. A few American soldiers are seen walking near the refugees. World War II.
Soviet forces break through German lines on Eastern front during World War II. An animated map with arrows showing Soviet forces counterattacks against German forces in region from Warsaw and 100km South, to Radom. Soviet artillery and rocket batteries firing. A formation of Soviet Ilyushin II-2 Sturmovik aircraft in flight. Bomb explosions and smoke shrouded battlefield. Soviet artillery fired. Views of burning buildings. Dead German soldiers and wrecked German artillery. Soviet tanks and infantry advance through dense smoke. Heavy Soviet guns fire and resultant explosion in distance. Soviet and Polish soldiers embrace in front of Polish National flag. Polish soldier salutes the flag with two-finger salute.