Estonians. That's the Way it Was. (1984)

Lesson of the expatriate Estonian pupils in Canada, singing class. Film's director Arved Viirlaid with his wife explains the reasons of making the film. Chronicle frames: Tallinn before World War I, Nicholas II of Russia, battle scenes from World War I. Revolution of 1917 in St. Petersburg, Kerenski, Lenin, manifesto of declaration of the Republic of Estonia; German forces in 1918, the Red Army, Danish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, armoured trains and armoured vehicles; the original document of the Treaty of Tartu. Chronicle scenes about the restructuring of the Republic of Estonia after the War of Independence:
Tallinn from the bird's eye view, "the cooking class", farmwork, oil shale industry, unloading goods at the port, song celebration, President Konstantin Päts talking in his office. The beginning of World War II: Molotov, Stalin, Hitler, German war chronicle, establishing of the Soviet regime in Estonia. Wartime events on River Narva, Estonia; photographs depicting the Estonians fleeing from Estonia, the Yalta Conference in 1945. War refugees in Sweden, ceding of the refugees to the Soviet Union, protest meetings. Refugee camp, arrival of the refugees to Canada (photos). Voice-over read by Arved Viirlaid, chronicle frames have been dubbed.