In this article, we take a look at the film “Riga genommen“, an official military film of the “Bild- und Film-Amt”. It can be found on the European film portal, a digital association of several European museums and archives. This film was shot at the end of 1917, after Riga was once again taken by the German Imperial Army. We look at the film to see how large and/or important the documentary and propaganda parts are. The propaganda part is particularly interesting at this point, as the medium of the moving image or film was only just emerging at this time. This means that a generally valid form of propaganda…