World War I. Campaign of 1914 (1914)

Military action on the Western Front during World War I in 1914. German infantry emerges from a trench to attack.

Views of the battlefield, shells exploding on positions.

A soldier runs to cover under fire.

French and German infantry attacking the enemy.

Panorama of the battlefield, shells exploding, attack through barbed wire.

Views of squares and streets in London and Paris during the Christmas Truce on the Western Front in December 1914. Rejoicing soldiers in their positions.

German and British soldiers meeting and fraternizing in no man's land.

A British and German soldier exchange hats, a British soldier lights a cigarette for a German, the soldiers take turns smoking.

German and British officers exchange hats and shake hands.

Crosses at a soldier's cemetery.

A heavy artillery gun fires.

A collage of newsreel footage from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the militarization of European countries.

A German and British officer exchange hats and shake hands during the Christmas Truce of 1914. French President R. Poincaré and his entourage inspect the guard of honour lined up on the platform of a train station during his visit to Great Britain on 24 July 1913. Poincaré and his entourage board a train carriage.

View of a blown-up railway bridge.

Movement of an infantry column of the Russian Imperial Army during military operations in the winter of 1914. Panorama of a bivouac of Russian soldiers in the winter of 1914. A column of British double-decker lorries with soldiers moves along the road in the autumn of 1914. Disembarkation of British soldiers from a ship in a French port.

A unit of French rangers passes through a village.

General Joffre and the officers accompanying him inspect the troops during a review in the summer of 1914. The Crossing French heavy ox-drawn guns cross a river on a wooden pontoon deck.

A heavy ox-drawn artillery battery begins to take up firing positions.

A Russian supply column moves along a road.

Supreme Commander-in-Chief Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich issues orders to officers at Headquarters.

Members of the British royal family out on horseback in a London park.

British field guns fire at the enemy.

Enemy infantry appears on the horizon.

British soldiers fire rifles.

Artillery fires.

A skirmish between German and British units on the Western Front.

British and German soldiers fire rifles.

German infantry columns move along the roads of France in the summer of 1914. German troops march through a forest.

A column of Parisian taxis delivers soldiers to the front lines during the Battle of the Marne in September 1914. A soldier stands next to the driver of one of the taxis.

A unit of the French horse artillery stops and turns to open fire.

Members of the Prussian royal family climb into a carriage.

General Hindenburg leaves the headquarters building.

Hindenburg stands by the car and talks with the driver, gets into the car.

German mobilized reservists march in formation along the road.

Reichswehr units parade on the streets and squares of Berlin a few days before the outbreak of World War I. Horse artillery and cavalry move through the square near the Brandenburg Gate.

A horse-drawn troop train moves along the streets of Berlin.

A German infantry unit marches along the road.

Officers stand on the side of the road talking.

German motorcyclists, on command, take their places by their vehicles, mount their motorcycles.

An officer clarifies the mission and route to a sergeant major.

The motorcyclists begin to move.

The motorcyclists ride away, raising clouds of dust.