And restored by the library of congress. , withatch the entire film commentary by two scholars who helped reassemble a movie that had become a jigsaw puzzle of fragments. This program is about two hours. Cooper graham my name is cooper graham. At the moment i am retired but i used to work at the library of congress and while i was here, among the fascinating things ive found buried in the vaults, and there is a lot of stuff buried in the vaults, is the film on the firing line with the germans. I looked at it and thought it was a fascinating bit of lost American History, including the high mark of the german army. Especially on the Eastern Front in 1915. As well as other stuff because it reflects interestingly what was going on in the United States at that. Lookingor the u. S. Will was looking at the strange war in europe and wondering how much of wonder to get involved and how much it could stay out of it and whether circumstances would allow it to. Jim i am a scholar retired from a Co