On the fronts of the First World War (1914-1917)

Romanian Prince Carol during a visit to a motorcycle machine gun company.

Soldiers demonstrate the capabilities of a machine gun on a motorcycle.

Prince Carol at a firing position during an inspection of a machine gun company, machine gunners firing.

Personnel of a company armed with light machine guns take up a position in a trench on a training ground, preparing machine guns for firing.

Machine gunners in a trench firing light machine guns.

Machine gun crews leave the trench and move forward.

View of the breech of an artillery piece with a piston breech.

Firing at a warship.

Scenes from a sea battle, firing from deck guns.

Hitting enemy ships, explosions on board.

A sinking ship disappears under water.

Ships during a sea battle.

Torpedoes launched from deck tubes.

An explosion on a ship caused by a torpedo hit.

Bringing a torpedo tube to a combat position.

The bow of the ship disappears under water.

A damaged ship capsizes.

A destroyer in battle.

Explosions on ships caused by torpedoes and shells.

Funnels of a sinking ship.

Ships during battle.

King George V of Great Britain climbs onto the deck of a warship, officers of the watch salute the king.

A sinking warship.

A sinking warship, sailors jumping into the water.

The ship turns upside down.

The bottom of the overturned ship, people swimming away from it.

Panorama of the crashed French bomber.

Inspection of the plane, assistance to the pilot.

Seaplanes during a combat sortie.

French combat planes at the airfield, one of the planes begins its takeoff run.

A plane in combat.

A burning balloon falling to the ground.

A plane flies over an observation balloon.

A balloon is hit.

A spotter jumps with a parachute from the balloon gondola.

A burning balloon falling to the ground.

A German airship in flight.

View of part of a city block (top).

The airship flies over the city.

The airship flies over the masts of warships.

Sailors watch the flight of the airship.

A German airship flies over the masts of warships.

Sailors watch the flight of the airship.

Anti-aircraft searchlights during an enemy air raid.

Repelling a night air raid by British anti-aircraft forces.

Firing at enemy aircraft at night.

Ludendorff next to a train carriage.

A military transport departs from the pier.

A German submarine on a combat mission.

German submariners at the deck gun.

Firing from the deck gun at a transport ship.

A hit on the side of the vessel.

The flag above the conning tower of the submarine.

The damaged transport ship capsizes and sinks.

German submariners at their combat posts.

The stern of the sinking ship disappears under water.

A British ship in port on a barrel.

Opening of secret hatches concealing the deck gun.

An underwater explosion.

Closing of the hatches.

Sailors disembarking from lifeboats from a sunken ship onto the deck of a German submarine.

Combat operations by German submariners.

A sinking ship disappears under water.

View of an attacked transport ship.

Firing from a submarine deck gun.

Fires on the damaged transport ship.

The submarine commander on the bridge.

French destroyers go into battle at high speed.

Panorama of part of the submarine base.

An air gunner fires a machine gun.

A burning balloon falls.

Airplanes fly on a combat mission.

An air gunner and a pilot during an air battle.

A crew of a French anti-aircraft gun mounted on a car fires at enemy airplanes.

An observation balloon in the sky.

Episodes of air battles.

A shot-down German airplane crashes into the ground.

The tail of an airplane burning on the ground.

Remains of an airplane engine.

The body of a dead pilot.

A link of airplanes flies on a combat mission.

A British anti-aircraft gun crew fires at air targets.

Actions of fighter and bomber aircraft on the fronts of World War I. Residents of one of the settlements flee from an air raid.

Flying airplanes.

Women on the ruins of a house.

A German airship flies by, drops bombs, victims of an aerial bombardment.

A child crying under the rubble.

People flee from the bombing.

Loading a torpedo into a deck apparatus.

Firing a torpedo.

The torpedo rushes toward the target.

Hitting a ship, explosion.

Warships during naval battles in the Baltic.

A half-submerged ship lowers its flag.

Raising the St.

Andrew's flag on a half-submerged ship.

The torpedo moves toward the target.

The torpedo hits a warship.

A bomber crew manually drops bombs on a target.

An explosion and destruction of a building as a result of an aerial bomb hit.

A fighter comes in behind a bomber.

An air gunner fires a machine gun.

A German aircraft lands on an airfield.

Mechanics begin servicing the aircraft.

Bullet holes in the plane.

A view of part of a city block (from above).

Airplanes fly by.

An aerostat in the air.

An airplane flies.

A parachute jump from the gondola of an aerostat.

A British anti-aircraft machine gun crew fires at an aerial target.

The aircraft sets the aerostat on fire.

An air gunner fires a machine gun.

The fall of a burning aerostat.

View of the bottom of a capsized ship, sailors sailing away from the site of the disaster.

Warships on the move.

King George V and his entourage of admirals on the deck of one of the British warships.

King George V and his entourage inspect the formation of the ship's crew.

George V greets the officers.

Ships of the German fleet at the base.

Ships of the German fleet at the base (panorama).

Warships at sea.

Warships of one of the belligerent countries off the coast of an island in the Baltic Sea.

The gun turret of a warship fires.

Explosion and fire on a transport ship as a result of a shell hitting it.

A sinking burning ship.

Bringing a deck gun into combat readiness.

The commander of a German submarine on the bridge with the officer of the watch and the lookout.

German submariners fire from a deck gun.

A hit on a transport ship.

Russian soldiers pick lice out of their underwear.

Russian soldiers pick lice out of their underwear.

Revolutionary rally in Petrograd in 1917. Russian soldiers in formation during the oath taking.

A unit of the Serbian army passes by.

A unit of the Serbian army on the march.

Soldiers of the colonial troops demonstrate their ability to handle weapons and sabres.

Parade of the colonial units of France.

The orchestra plays the French national anthem with the flag unfurled.

A drill and rifle training session in one of the units of the colonial troops of France.

A session on studying and practicing bayonet fighting techniques.

A training bayonet fight between soldiers.

Installation of a wire spiral barrier.

French soldiers installing a wire fence.

British colonial soldiers put on gas masks in a trench.

British colonial soldiers in a trench put on gas masks, turn around and walk along the trench.

French colonial soldiers during a halt in one of the settlements.

Soldiers of the French colonial unit disembarking from passenger carriages.