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Documentary titled 'Why We Fight, The Battle of Russia' depicts history of battles fought by Russia defeating invading armies.

A documentary titled 'Why We Fight, The Battle of Russia' depicts battles fought by Russians, fighting military raids from other nations. Dramatized scenes of invasion of German knights in 1242. Town Pskov destroyed and civilians roped. In the battle of Novgorad, the Russians under emperor Alexender Nevesky defeat the Germans in a fierce battle. The Swedish attack Russia and get defeated by Russian army in battle of Poltava in 1704. French troops retreat in a frozen desert after getting defeated by Russians in 1812. German Kaiser Wilhelm II inspects World War 1 troops on Eastern front in 1917. Russian army of cavaliers and infantrymen march for battle. Map shows a part of Russia, Ukraine occupied during the battle. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036930
Camels caravan in the deserts of Jerusalem.

Camels caravan in the deserts of Jerusalem. General Allenby's fighters walk along with the caravans to repel the Sultan's forces. Well destroyed by retreating enemy. Mosque and minarets in Jerusalem old city (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027169
British military forces in Palestine and Mesopotamia during World War I

Camel caravan passes wagons mired in water. Turkish troops surrendering to British soldiers.The Turks are excorted past British soldiers manning an 18 pounder field artillery piece. The prisoners of war join a large group of other POWs held in an outdoor containment. Closeup of British General Edmund Allenby, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), who led forces that seized Jerusalem from the Ottomans. The British Forces marching into Jerusalem, led by a Bagpipe Band. British soldiers escorting Ottoman prisoners. A British gunboat firing while anchored on the Tigris River. British soldiers marching up ma mountainside and building a tall, somewhat pyramidal, observation post, made of sand bags. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917, December
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043155
View of Henry Ford's Bagley Avenue garage shed and an old Ford car in desert-like terrain

View of the backyard shed and trees at 58 Bagley Avenue in Detroit,Michigan, where Henry Ford built his first automobiles. An old Ford Model-T passing between two large desert rock formations on a rough road.

Date: 1917
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031028
British gun positions and troops in a desert of Mesopotamia during World War I.

British troops relax at their trench line in the Mesopotanian desert, as others interrogate an Ottoman "spy" with help of a man and a woman interpreters. The captured Turk sits on the back of a British Lanchester armored car, as the woman speaks with him. He then speaks to another interpreter standing to his right.

Date: 1917
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029249
British cavalry train at a desert encampment in Cairo, Egypt during World War I

British cavalry engaged in early morning training at a desert encampment in Cairo, Egypt, during World War 1. The mounted cavalry execute maneuvers in formation. Then they line up opposing one another and charge, passing through each others lines. Later, they are seen moving along the shore of the Nile River,with the British Army barracks in the background.Finally, they proceed up a sand slope past a windmill.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029251