Activities of Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a holiday in France. Jai alai players in a court. A Jai alai match begins. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, his wife Clementine Ogilvy Spencer Churchill and their daughter, Sarah, seated in a grandstand watch the match.
German and British soldiers in France during the Dieppe Raid of World War II. Dead troops lying on beach in a long barbed wire entanglement. Canadian and British troops. Damaged amphibious tanks stranded on beach. British soldiers' damaged helmets lying around tanks. Damaged Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft on field. Germans march captured Commandos through the streets. Some Commandos in uniform. Scenes of German prisoners camp: food rationed out to prisoners. Street scenes: civilians walk around. Buildings seen on either side of the streets. German soldier stands guard at the beach with machine gun in front of him. Platoons of German troops in uniform march on beach. German soldier mans a machine gun. Men stand around it.
Model parade in park shows women wearing dark sunglasses, France. Men watch. Various views of women parade in dark sun glasses. Women wear different styles of glasses. Dog wears sunglasses.
At beginning, and throughout the film, organ music is heard as camera pans from top of a church tower, down across the roof and sides, to the front of a church building in a German occupied town in Southern France, during World War 2. A lone German soldier patrols an empty street in the background. Closeup of the German soldier patrolling. Camera pans over stained glass window inside the church to a German soldier at keyboard playing the church organ. Camera shifts to view of interior balcony and stained glass windows at front of the church. View of soldiers hands on the keyboard as he plays the organ. Interior view of side of the church with pillars above which Gothic arches extend toward the roof. Camera pans down to view from behind the organist, showing him and the full interior of the church in the background, behind him. (The organ is located in a loft at the rear of the church.) Closeup profile of the soldier organist. Camera pans inside, showing damage to roof and then down to large pieces of masonry rubble on the floor. View changes to closeup profile of a German soldier standing outside at the door of the church.
King George V of the United Kingdom and his son, Edward, the Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII), visits the front line in France during World War 1. A valet holds the car door for King George V as he gets out of the vehicle. Edward, the Prince of Wales, arrives by car. French President Raymond Poincaré accompanies King George V during visit to the frontlines to view assembly of the French Army Corps cavalry as they charge in formation.
A naval patrol Zeppelin flying over United States Navy ships sailing the Atlantic Ocean during World War 1. United States battleship at sea. American Expeditionary Forces marching after their arrival in France in June 1917. United States soldiers, also known as “doughboys”, marching with the American flag through a town as French locals watch. A man shakes the hand of a passing soldier. United States troops marching in farmland and forested road.
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