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Dir: Donald Crisp

During the Civil War, young widow Rachel Hayne is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death. When Gordon is wounded during an attempted escape, Rachel's loyalty impels her to try to save him by feigning his death. As Gordon's stretcher is carried through the hospital, Fielding demands an examination of the body, charging that Prescott is involved in a plot to smuggle the spy out of the hospital alive. General Stanton lifts the cover from the body, only to find that death has really come, freeing both Rachel and Prescott.

Dir: Fred Niblo

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Highly decorated for her service as a wartime nurse, Mrs. Nancy Fair returns home after the hostilities to find her family falling apart. Nevertheless, she goes on a lecture tour in hopes of doing more good. Her second homecoming finds Mr. Fair involved in an affair with Angy Brice, a neighboring widow; her son, Alan, married and in bad company; and her daughter, Sylvia, eloped. The search for Sylvia brings Mrs. Fair to her senses and reunites the family.

Dir: Les Kurbas

Background component for an eponymous stage play, which contrasts the reality of war with that of high society.

Dir: Unknown Director

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Dimitris Gaziadis

Pictures from the Greek expedition to Asia Minor.

Dir: Percy Nash

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

A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.

Dir: Antoni Bednarczyk

The north-eastern Polish province of Vilnius is after WW1 plundered by savage Bolsheviks. The heroic Polish army is bound to stop them.

Dir: Jerome Storm

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

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.

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: Richard Boleslawski

Quiet and monotonous life in the countryside is abruptly interrupted by the moving front of the Polish-Russian war.