The German Spy Peril (1914) watch online HD

A young man is rejected for military service. When he overhears German spies planning to blow up Parliament, his love of King and Country leads him to heroism in this propaganda film.

The second half of this film has been preserved on the BFI's site on Youtube, and it shows a clear reference to Guy Fawkes' Day and the Gunpowder Plot, something that for centuries has stirred the ire of English man and boy. When we speak of propaganda, we speak of Soviet-era praise of mass achievement, or Fascist pieces like TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. We forget that in two World Wars, the British showed themselves the masters of portraying themselves as nice guys and their foes as enemies of decency, ready to rape nuns or sentence minoritiesto death.... so much so that by the time these things were actually happening in the Second World War, they weren't even reported, because no one would believe them this time.