Night action at the Battle of Jutland Royal Navy endlessly patrolling the North Sea and preventing it taking part in war efforts elsewhere. Night action at the Battle of Jutland The Battle of Jutland took place in the North Sea between the German High Seas Fleet and British Grand Fleet on the afternoon and evening of 31 May 1916, continuing sporadically through the night into the early hours of 1 June. The battle was the only direct engagement between the two fleets throughout World War I. The war had already been waged for two years without any major sea battle, and many of the people present did
The Battle of the Somme (film) in the film archive of the Imperial War Museum. In 2005 it was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register and digitally restored, and in 2008, was released on DVD. "The Battle of the Somme" is significant as an early example of film propaganda, an historical record of the battle and as a popular source of footage illustrating the First World War. "The Battle of the Somme" is a black-and-white silent film in five parts, with sequences divided by intertitles summarising the contents. The first part shows preparations for battle behind the British front line; there are sequences of