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Dir: Unknown Director

Documentary about the physical and vocational rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.

Dir: Jerome Storm

Luther Green goes to war in France in 1917. When he comes back to his family home in New Jersey, he has a surprise following him: a beautiful French girl named Nina.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Paris Green perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Wallace Worsley

An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Seven League Boots perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Anthony Young

Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.

Dir: Alberto Botelho

A view of the Carnival festivities in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as covered by filmmaker Alberto Botelho in 1920.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: William F. Adler

A travelogue/documentary including explorations of the fauna and people of Siam, New Guinea, and Java, with interpolations of an apparently fictitious encounter between the filmmakers and cannibalistic natives of Frederick Henry Island in the South Pacific.

Dir: Unknown Director

The true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's dramatic exploratory journey to Antarctica aboard the Endurance, during which the ship and all aboard became icebound.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Heroes All perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Ya'ackov Ben-Dov

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Arnold Fanck

A documentary about skiing at the beginning of the century.