Excerpt from the fictional silent film "The Birth of a Nation" shows Colonel Ben Cameron going back to his home in the United States. A guard stands holding a gun. The Colonel gets discharged from a hospital. Nurse Elise walks with him. The Colonel shakes hand with the nurse. Guards exchange their duty in the background. Elise and Ben talk. The Colonel kisses the back of her hand. The Colonel leaves. Elise in a sad mood and a guard tells her something. Ben's sister Flora Cameron holds a plate. Food in the plate. A man puts a shawl on her. Ben's sister sticks cotton pieces on her dress. She sits in a chair. Flora looks at her dress. Colonel Ben's house. He looks at his house. Flora shows her dress to her mother. They run towards the door as Ben arrives. Ben enters the house. Ben's mother and sister are happy. Colonel's mother, father and sister stand together. Ben's sister meet him and both of them talk. She hugs him. They both enter the house.
World War One British Tank crew wearing protective leather helmets enter Mark I Male Tank through access door adjacent to sponson. Officer, carrying his black cat mascot on his shoulder, follows. Tank's sponson (also called barbette) is seen rotating with its 6 pounder gun changing elevation.
Wartime activities of German soldiers in Europe during World War I. Horse carts, and a building seen in the background. A convoy of horse carts pass on a road. Several German soldiers ride the carts and several soldiers walk alongside the convoy of horse carts.
Trains with driver-less locomotives collide in Belgium during World War I. The trains burn. The collided trains in view. Men inspect the collided trains. The German troops build the railroad. Germany's Railroad Engineers Corps restore a bomb damaged tunnel.
Wartime activities of German soldiers in Europe during World War I. German soldiers prepare for life in the trenches: The soldiers shovel mud and make trenches. The soldiers work on plumbing. The troops make candles to light the trenches. Candles lying in boxes.
German volunteer soldiers demonstrate rising man power in Europe during World War I. The German volunteers gather and practice in drills for marksmanship and shooting. The German volunteers carrying rifles, practice for firing. An officer reviews troops. The troops learn to march. The German military personnel herd cattle through the streets of a town, for use to feed soldiers. Sides of beef and large wheels of cheese are distributed to soldiers. The soldiers eat the beef. Some German soldiers in France or Belgium distribute food and drink to hungry children of the enemy who gather near them.