1918 on Film

Shades of epic cinema as soldiers roam around the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza

The surviving reel of what seems like an action-packed adaptation of George Eliot’s 1859 debut novel.

One reel of a feature about a German invasion of Britain.

Rural bliss down on the farm for a happy recruit to the Women's Land Army

The capable women doing men's work on Nottinghamshire's farms attract a crowd - and perhaps some new recruits

These Land Girls are firm friends - and just as good at farm work as the men they replaced during WWI

The tricky task of tracking London's swans.

Scenes from the Western Front

A military airship of the S.S.T. series is pulled out of a hangar and prepared for take-off.

A soldier scarred by torture at the hands of African natives is rescued by a gypsy

Shot, blown up and stitched back together, wartime’s biggest and most colourful piece of propaganda is squeezed into Mayfair in this 1918 newsreel.

A heroes’ welcome for the Bedford regiment in their own hometown.

The surrender of the German fleet at the end of WW1 and the visit of King George V and the Prince of Wales to USS New York at Rosyth.

One of the first Irish feature films, a heartwarming tale of Tipperary folk set during the land clearances of the 1840s

An unidentified – and intriguing – anthology of early amateur film.

An instructional film offering tips on how to get rid of greenfly, caterpillars, snails, slugs, moths and sparrows.

Who knew George V was growing vegetables in his back yard?

Self-sufficiency in a Midlands garden suburb supports national resilience during WWI

A legend in the making: the first film glimpse of the man who would become Lawrence of Arabia

Brave Royal Flying Corps (later RAF) pilots put early parachute designs to the test. It’s hair-raising stuff!

Parachute experiments shot from a bird’s-eye-view.

Even HMS Victory makes a cameo in a propaganda piece made after the British Navy’s bloodiest day of WWI.

Covert operations on the home front find solutions to shortages just next door

These vignettes of village life during WWI in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, are testament to the industriousness of its inhabitants.

Red letter day in Preston

Dramatic aerial footage of the German surrender captured by the RAF.

Defence of the realm diverts cereal feeds from hungry hens and leaves their owners with a dilemma

The heroic dogs trained to aid wounded WWI soldiers caught between the lines.

May I shake your hand, ma'am? Back in Blighty, a soldier finds the proper way to address a queen

Bashful British soldiers are mobbed by French citizens after Lille is freed from the Germans in WWI.

You can virtually hear the explosions and smell the smoke in this rare close-up of a WWI battlefield.

Mayors, bishops and clergymen march through Camberwell to the asylum, better known today as Caroline Gardens.

The future King Edward VIII gets down and dirty on a visit to an Ebbw Vale pit in South Wales

The people of Hoylake and West Kirby welcome their returning hero Sergeant Cyril Gourley V.C. of the Royal Field Artillery.

A little healthy competition in the shipyard – who can fasten the most rivets in a nine-hour stretch?

A surrendered German U-boat travels up the Thames

Northumberland Fusiliers in action.

Handy hints for would-be fromagers

Life in the Royal Flying Corps. A series of unedited shots give us an insight into the military and social life of the early years of the RAF.

Mrs Grousin’-Jones can’t stop complaining about the inconvenience of the war

Chinese children toddle to traditional music in this intriguing Gaumont newsreel.

A chilling message for a nation at war: don't trust the enemy, even after the fighting stops

Women munitions workers from the Kynoch and Vickers Maxim factories take to the pitch in Southend during WWI.

Topical Budget salutes Britain's top brass in this gleefully patriotic newsreel edition, released just weeks after the First World War was won.

Having survived the menace of the First World War, Rhyl is assaulted by the watery forces of nature

The sun shines down when PM Lloyd George is in town.

A war shrine is unveiled in Hillingdon by one of Britain’s leading wartime politicians

The 'Tank Bank' tours through Scotland, selling War Bonds, raising money for the war effort and boosting morale

Barnstaple's experimental concrete-hulled ship gets a visit from a jolly Italian admiral.

Q Ship ‘Suffolk Coast’, which trapped and sank many U-boats, arrives in the Thames for display in St. Katherine’s Dock.

American troops march through London and salute King George V in this late-WWI newsreel item

Essential training. A demonstration of the loading and unloading of a Lewis Gun.

Drills for Lewis Gun operators, the laying out and inspection of components for a Lewis Gun.

Film pioneer Cecil Hepworth raises awareness of a royal fund to support servicemen wounded in WWI

Take a tip from Canada and feed your hard-working man beans and pork to give him a high-speed productivity boost

Idleness is for peacetime. During a war, everybody - and every plot of land - must do their part

Newsreel footage of the great food saver Arthur Yapp speaking in Trafalgar Square during WW1.

Proud servicemen accept awards for valour in a morale boosting late-war newsreel

Battling biology with a Burgundy mixture, protecting potatoes by the application of science

This curious silent film offers a glimpse inside the mind, and the country home, of a notorious politician and inventor

“Mosque and picturesque scenes in Palestine now occupied by the British" – the Mosque of Omar, or Dome of the Rock, has been “freed” by British troops.

Julian', a battle-scarred tank, is the toast of Merthyr in June 1918. Spot 3 women without hats in the crowd that greets the monster guest.