''The Battle and Fall of Przemysl'' is a 1915 documentary
war film
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle s ...
shot on the Eastern Front by official war photographer to the Central Powers,
Albert K. Dawson
Albert Knox Dawson (September 20, 1885 – February 1, 1967) was a photojournalist and film correspondent who covered World War I with the German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian army.
Early life
Albert Knox Dawson was born in Vincennes, Indian ...
. Its four reels depicted the
Siege of Przemyśl
The siege of Przemyśl was the longest siege in Europe during the First World War. The siege was a crushing defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Army by the Russian Army. Przemyśl (german: Premissel) was a fortress-town and stronghold on the River San ...
, disastrous for the Austrians, with incidents reenacted using soldiers as extras. Most of it has been lost.
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''"The Battle and Fall of Przemysl"'' (USA, 1915)- scenes found at the Austrian Film Archives
1915 documentary films
Black-and-white documentary films
1915 films
Documentary films about World War I
American silent feature films
Lost American films
American documentary films
American black-and-white films
1915 lost films
1910s American films
Silent war films
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