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The German invasion of France in World War II.

Film starts showing diagrams of German army artillery firing plan supporting Battle of France during World War 2. German army officers are seen viewing maps and going over plans. Animated map shows British and French forces in the West and German break-through army poised to the East of the Maginot Line. The animated German break-through forces advance behind artillery. View of a German gun crew firing a 21cm heavy howitzer, and its shells exploding in the distance. Various views of German gun crews loading and firing heavy artillery and the shells striking with large explosions. German infantry soldiers seen moving through area filled with obstacle defenses. A line of German Panzer I tanks moving along a road between the obstacles. More views of German artillery firing. Machine gun firing and fires breaking out at night, and German tanks moving over fires burning on the ground. Machine fun tracer rounds seen in the dark. Many buildings being consumed by flames. Surrendered French soldiers being searched by German soldiers. A large open air compound containing many French prisoners of war taken by the German forces. Various views of the prisoners in the compound.

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028016
Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of the British forces and Arthur J Balfour, Foreign Secretary meet and confer in France during World War I..

Opening slate identifies Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of British Forces, and the Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, meeting and conferring in France, during World War 1. They are seen seated side by side on a bench in a park-like setting.

Date: 1917
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028104
Soldiers on tanks and other vehicles pass on a field in France.

Soldiers walk along with prisoners of war at a field in France. Vehicles pass on the field. Soldiers move on tank. They rest in the field.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028110
Soldiers dig trenches and move on horse-carts on the field in France.

Soldiers in trenches in a field in France. They dig trenches. Trees in the background. Soldiers stand in a foxhole. They move on horse-carts on the field. Cars passing on the street. Soldiers load luggage on the horse-carts and move on the field. They enter Longmont. Wrecked houses, buildings and trees in the area. Wreckage in the field.

Date: 1935
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028116
British soldiers fire an 8 inch howitzer in a field during the Battle of Ancre, France, in World War I.

British soldiers stand near an 8 inch howitzer during the Battle of Ancre in France, during World War 1. They fire the howitzer. A soldier talks on telephone in a trench. Other soldier speaks on loudspeaker. Soldiers fire in the field. Other soldiers sit in a dugout. Shells on the field.

Date: 1916, November
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028126
Elements of Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (Corpo Expedicionário Português or CEP) on Western Front in France during World War I

Members of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (Corpo Expedicionário Português or CEP) are seen having a civilized lunch at a second line trench, where they served under British and/or French control, on the Western Front in France during World War 1. Portuguese soldiers emerge from a well-established dugout deep in a wood lattice-reinforced trench. Lengthwise view of Portuguese troops lined up in the deep trench. Several make their way single-file toward the camera. Slate identifies a telephone station in the secondary trench. A soldier in a French Adrian steel helmet stands at the entrance of a heavily fortified dugout. Numerous phone wires extend outward and upwards from the dugout entrance. (They are difficult to see against the rocks reinforcing the entrance.)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028155