The German SM U-35 crew fires deck gun to sink a captured ship during World War 1. Ship listing before sinking. Crates from the doomed ship are seen floating nearby. SM U-35 Commander and U-boat submarine ace Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière and officers grinning as they flip through a logbook. Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière writes off the sunken ship from the logbook.
An artillery cannon fires in the battlefield. Explosion from shell in a battlefield. A British soldier in a trech carries an injured comrade on his shoulders. French soldiers move in single file in a trench. French soldiers climbing the parados of a trench. French soldiers move through field after climbing up the trench parados.
Torpedo is fired at a ship, as seen from the bow of the German SM U-35 U-boat in World War 1. The SM U-35 Commander, Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, notes sunken ship in a logbook. Smoke coming from ship as it sinks.
A Church in view. People with covered heads shop in the vegetable market. Vendors sit in shade. Jeeps and cars on a road. A man passes by a pyramid. Crowd in a busy street.
Russian politician Mihail Ivanovic Kalinin together with members of his office staff works with persons presenting documents that he inspects. He inspects papers from a man and converses at length with him. Kalinin at his desk with papers, and at a podium speaking, with handful of papers. In separate scene, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in plain brown uniform, addresses a group of similarly dressed men.
Study in which Trotsky was attacked by Ramon Mercader. A wounded Ramon Mercader in hospital bed. Close up of a knife found at the scene. Journalists and police gathered to hear the latest news. Leon Trotsky dying in hospital bed. An ambulance leaves police headquarters. A crowd peering through metal gates. A gathering of photographers with cameras. (World War II period).