A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Under Four Flags
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by S.L. Rothafel

Cast: General Armando Diaz [himself], General Ferdinand Foch [himself], Field Marshal Douglas Haig [himself], General John J. Pershing [himself]

United States Committee on Public Information, Division of Films, production; distributed by World Film Corporation [A Government Victory Picture]. / Produced by S.L. Rothafel. Scenario by Kenneth C. Beaton. Cinematography by United States Signal Corps, Photographic Division, and by other Allied Army photographers. Film editor, S.L. Rothafel. Musical accompaniment supervised by S.L. Rothafel. / Released 17 November 1918. General release, 6 January 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The film may have been cut to five reels for general release.

Documentary: War: World War I.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm acetate duplicate negative].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 30 November 2023.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 11 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.