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Two WWI film scholars and two Library of Congress preservationists describe how this film was rediscovered and restored by the Library of Congress. The entire film is then shown with commentary by the two scholars. In the spring of 1915, American journalist Wilbur Durborough & cinematographer Guy Ries left Chicago bound for Berlin, Germany. They traveled with the German army to the front lines in East Prussia and Poland and shot 25,000 feet of film, about five and a half hours. They returned to the United States in September of 1915 and in November released the 108-minute feature film "On the Firing Line with the Germans." The film received positive reviews and screened widely in the United States, despite the fact that it presented a favorable view of the Germans.