Newsreel of the First World War (1914-1918)

US President Woodrow Wilson answers the telephone in his office in the White House.

Wilson signs a document at his desk.

Text of the document on the US entry into World War I. The face of General J. Pershing.

Pershing on the deck of a military transport ship.

Pershing greets French and British soldiers.

Faces of American politicians and military men, speeches by speakers at rallies in support of sending the US Army to Europe in 1917. Warships on a campaign.

Panorama of part of the deck of one of the American battleships (top).

The commander of one of the ships speaks to the crew gathered on the forecastle, the sailors welcome the commander’s decision (top).

King George V of Great Britain steps onto the deck of a warship, the commander reports to the king.

The king greets the officers.

George V on the deck of a ship among naval and land officers.

The king shakes hands with the officers.

American troops march through the streets to the port to board ships.

Soldiers boarding.

Soldiers waving goodbye from the ship and from the portholes.

Soldiers on the deck of a transport during departure (panorama, from above).

A passenger transport leaves the port.

President Wilson participates in a charity lottery, drawing lots blindfolded.

Soldiers on the deck of a ship sailing to Europe (panorama, from above).

American servicemen during the voyage, everyday life on the ship.

Soldiers eating.

A soldier with a puppy in his arms.

Lookouts with binoculars in their hands.

Escort ships accompanying a military transport.

A deck gun crew fires.

Depth charges explode astern during the repulse of an attack by a German submarine.

US warships sail through the Atlantic Ocean.

Views of the decks and superstructures of ships sailing through a storm.

Soldiers descend from the ship along the gangway after arriving in Europe.

King George V arrives at a French military unit.

George V and General Joffre review a parade of French troops in 1916. Infantry and cavalry on parade.

George V walks past a line of cadets and talks to them.

The Queen of Great Britain walks past a line of female auxiliary units.

General Joffre at the station awaiting the arrival of the British military delegation.

Joffre and his entourage greet the arriving British general at the station.

Joffre and British military and politicians in a trench on the front line.

A view of forward positions on the Western Front in winter.

A British mortar crew fires.

British soldiers run out of a dugout into a trench, putting on gas masks as they go.

Soldiers walk along the trench, take their positions.

A heavy gun fires.

Soldiers climb out of the trench and move forward.

Heavy artillery fires.

Troop columns attacking the enemy, deploying in a chain on the snow.

Parade of Allied troops.

Faces of officers talking to each other.

French soldiers on the platform watching a passing train.

Loading provisions at a military depot for shipment to the active army.

Artillery and infantry moving to the front line.

Heavy artillery being moved up a mountain.

Setting up a firing position in the mountains.

French troops in the Alps.

A ski unit moving.

Alpine rangers climbing a snowy slope, holding on to a rope.

Views of a funeral procession in Vienna.

Ladies from a charity circle greeting decorated Austrian officers.

A service in one of the regiments of the Russian Imperial Army before leaving for the front in the summer of 1915-1916, a panorama of the regiment's formation.

The soldiers approach one by one and kiss the regimental banner.

The priest carries the icon along the formation.

Explosions of artillery shells on the Western Front, heavy artillery fires at the enemy.

British soldiers carry their wounded out of the trenches.

A British soldier helps a comrade wounded in the leg to walk, offering his shoulder.

Orderlies help a Russian soldier who has lost his sight to walk.

Corpses of soldiers in the trenches.

Refugees leave the village, drive away cattle.

Women and children, having left their homes, walk along the road, carrying their belongings in handcarts.

The movement of a convoy of refugees along one of the roads in France.

A panorama of part of the refugee camp.

Residents of Berlin on July 31, 1914, greet Kaiser Wilhelm II, who announces the beginning of the war with Russia from a balcony.

View of a patriotic demonstration in Hamburg on July 31, 1914. Residents of the city walk along the street next to soldiers marching in formation.

Units of the Austrian army pass through the streets of Vienna on July 28, 1914, residents greet them, a column of patriotic demonstration passes.

King George V of Great Britain and his entourage of military personnel inspect the formation of cadets.

George V talks to one of the cadets.

The Queen of Great Britain and her entourage inspect the formation of women's auxiliary units.

The Queen walks along the formation of the women's motorcycle unit.

General Joffre at the station awaiting the arrival of the British military.

General Joffre and the arriving British military walk across the railway tracks at the station.

General Joffre and the British military walk along the formation of the guard of honor.

Joffre and the British military and politicians in a trench at the training ground.

French and British military personnel walk along the training ground.

Austrian soldiers captured on the Eastern Front walk past.

A French balloon rises to adjust artillery fire.

The airplane flies next to the balloon and attacks it.

An aerial gunner fires a machine gun at the balloon.

An anti-aircraft gun fires at an aerial target.

Soldiers of the balloon team hold the balloon's lines (top).

A French machine-gun crew fires at an aerial target from a trench.

An airplane flying by.

The balloon team at work (top).

Firing at enemy airplanes from machine guns and an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a car.

French soldiers near a wrecked airplane (panorama).

A German balloon flies over Kiel Bay.

Air defense searchlights search for targets in the night sky.

Searchlight crews at work.

Firing at aerial targets at night.

A burning balloon falls.

German generals talk while standing near a train carriage.

The faces of speakers and rally participants during the February Revolution of 1917 (excerpts from the film).

A horse cordon blocking the street.

Serbian troops marching along the platform.

The movement of a sled convoy of the Czechoslovak Corps.

The convoy enters a village.

Czech legionnaires combing the area.

Panorama of the Orlik armoured train in winter 1919, the crew taking their places.

Departure of the armoured train to the front line, the armoured train gunners on one of the open armoured platforms.

Smoke from the pipes of the armoured locomotive.

Views of the armoured train.

View of a part of Constantinople.

Sultan Mehmed V among the military.

Spread of an Italian newspaper.

Seeing off Italian troops to the front in 1915. Parade of Italian troops.

British unit on camels.

Movement of riflemen and artillery on camels during the fighting in Palestine and Transjordan.

A column of skiers moves through the Alps.

Movement of units of Alpine riflemen in the mountains in winter.

Austrian rangers pull guns uphill during the fighting in Italy in 1915. An Italian machine gun crew fires.

Fighting on the Italian front in winter.

The Allied delegation is met at the station in Rome.

Panorama and views of the ceremonial event in honor of the arrival of the Allied representatives.

Italian Alpine riflemen in battle.

Russian soldiers at a halt in the winter of 1915-1916. Russian cavalrymen lead their horses by the bridle across a bridge.

Faces of French mountain rangers.

Rangers boarding a carriage.

A train with troops is sent to the front, soldiers wave their hands from the carriages.

Combat operations on the Western Front, infantry attacks, a German machine-gun crew fires (alternating).

Combat operations at night.

French infantry rises to attack, soldiers lie down under artillery fire.

Russian and German cavalry units fording a river.

Combat operations in France.

British warships heading out to sea.

A submarine is on the surface, beginning to dive.

Photo of the submarine commander at the periscope.

Warships on the move.

German sailors wearing gas masks in the wheelhouse.

Stokers wearing gas masks.

A torpedo tube crew at work.

Launching a torpedo.

Warships damaged and burning as a result of torpedo attacks.

Sinking warships and transport ships.

An American poster calling for enlistment.

US President Woodrow Wilson at his desk signing a document.

A transport carrying American troops arrives in Europe in 1917. A parade of arriving American troops (top).

American troops march through the streets of a city.

Members of a German motorcycle unit take their places at their motorcycles in the summer of 1914. The motorcyclists begin to move.

Motorcycles in clouds of dust.

British soldiers rise from a trench to attack.

A view of part of the area with attacking British infantry.

Fighting to capture a German position, shells exploding (general plan).

A heavy gun fired.

A shell exploding on a position.

German infantry rising to attack from a trench.

General view of the French infantry advance supported by a Renault light tank.

British heavy tanks driving over an earthen rampart.

Fighting between Allied tanks and German infantry in 1916-1917 on the Western Front.

Fighting on the Western Front.

British soldiers in the trenches.

Carrying out the wounded on stretchers, delivering them to a field hospital.

German generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff discussing a plan for the next military operation over a map.

Warships of the German fleet before setting out to sea.

An airplane dropping bombs.

A bridge flying apart from the explosion.

A heavy bomber in flight (below).

A falling bomb.

Bomb explosions on positions.

German troops running along a city street.

Aerial bombs being dropped.

Bomb explosions in the city.

German troops in the street fleeing an air raid.

An airplane dropping a bomb.

Bombers in flight.

Air battles, gunners firing at enemy airplanes.

A British machine-gun crew firing at enemy airplanes.

Airplanes colliding in the air during a battle.

An airplane crashes into the ground.

The burning remains of an airplane.

The body of a dead pilot near the wreckage of an airplane.

Bombs and shells exploding.

A column of German prisoners of war under escort of French soldiers.

German soldiers surrendering to the British, the Germans are led out of a dugout.

German prisoners of war behind barbed wire.

British soldiers in a trench providing first aid to a seriously wounded man.

Stretcher with wounded on the platform of the station, delivery of new wounded.

Soldiers of the British burial team collect corpses for burial in a mass grave.

Panorama of sparse forest, corpses among the trees.

Corpses of soldiers among the ruins.

Work of the burial team.

Digging a mass grave, burying dead soldiers in it.

Digging graves, burying corpses.

Parade of British troops on the streets of the city.

General Hindenburg among the military.

Units of the German army march along the road to the music of a brass band during a review.

An infantry regiment of the German army on the march.

Establishing positions.

The movement of an army convoy.

A unit of the British cavalry on the march.

British troops take up positions in trenches and among ruins.

Parade of French troops.

Units of the French troops advance to the front line.

A British general addresses the troops.

The movement of columns of units of various branches of the armed forces of the Entente countries towards the front line in the European and Asian theaters of military operations.

French troops advance to positions in the mountains.

The movement of a heavy gun on a self-propelled chassis.

Artillery duels and combat operations on the fronts of World War I in 1918. Infantry attacks enemy allies through open spaces.

Combat operations on forested slopes, dying German soldiers.

Retreating German infantry.

British soldiers attack the enemy up a slope.

Combat operations involving infantry, machine guns and artillery, evacuation of the wounded.

Artillery fires from both sides, corpses of soldiers.

British and French infantry attacking the enemy.

Nenets soldiers who were captured walk along a trench with their hands raised.

Evacuation of the French wounded on stretchers and on foot, corpses of soldiers in the trenches.

Flamethrower attacks on fortified positions.

French soldiers, poisoned by gas, walk along a city street.

French artillerymen fire from heavy guns, corpses of German soldiers.

Machine gunners take up a position in the ruins.

Medics evacuate a wounded man.

Faces of German prisoners of war.

French soldiers carry their wounded on their greatcoats.

Heavy artillery fires.

Cavalry and horse artillery cross water obstacles on the move.

German infantry counterattacks under enemy artillery fire.

German prisoners of war carrying their wounded on stretchers.

Sorting the German wounded in a British hospital, stretchers with the wounded on the ground (panorama).

Providing first aid to wounded German soldiers captured by the British.

French gunners firing.

Infantry attacks the enemy with artillery support.

British infantry rises from the trench and attacks, the dead and wounded fall.

Allied artillery fires.

Presentation of awards to German, British and French soldiers.

Combat on the Western Front.

King George V of Great Britain greets the widows of fallen servicemen.

Combat on the Western Front, heavy artillery fires.

British and French tanks and infantry attacking the enemy.

Heavy artillery shelling city blocks, shells exploding among buildings.

British infantry runs into the attack.

Presentation of a British award to a woman.

British soldiers in a trench during the battle.

Panorama of the countryside and the approaching airfield (top).

Officers of the Russian army at the entrance to the headquarters.

A mountain artillery battery moves up a steep slope to the firing positions.

Units of the Russian army march along mountain paths on the Caucasian Front.

Soldiers climb up a cliff.

Mountain landscape (panorama, top).

Infantry and Cossacks in trenches on the Caucasian Front, the life and rest of the soldiers.

Soldiers smoke, sitting in a trench.

View of a mountain pass (top), a column of troops is moving along the road.

Machine gunners in a trench install a machine gun, equip a firing point.

Bringing ammunition to a finally loaded state at the firing position of an artillery piece.

An artillery crew of the Russian army opens fire.

Shells explode on the slope of a hill.

Orderlies carry a stretcher with a wounded man into a tent of a field hospital.

Delivery of the wounded to a field hospital.

Field hospital work, carrying the wounded to the surgeon's tent.

A nurse vaccinates soldiers.

Orderlies lift a stretcher with a wounded man.

Actions of a cavalry reconnaissance patrol.

View of an empty trench.

Views of the terrain between the hills during military operations (above).

Soldiers in formation on the pier (panorama) during a meeting of representatives of the International Red Cross.

Soldiers on crutches, who have lost limbs, descend from an ambulance van, enter the Red Cross barracks, a Red Cross representative meets the wounded.

The face of one of the soldiers delivered to the hospital.

Nicholas II among the officers and soldiers of one of the regiments that distinguished themselves at the front.

Nicholas II during the award ceremony for soldiers and officers.

Nicholas II among military doctors and nurses at the entrance to the hospital.

A Russian horse train and Cossacks fording a river.

An officer commands soldiers running out of a barracks.

People on the streets of Paris rejoice after receiving news of Germany's surrender and the end of World War I in November 1918, as cars with French and American flags pass by (top).

Faces of people rejoicing and waving French and American flags.

French soldiers are greeted as they march through the streets of the city.

Views of the streets and squares of Paris and Brussels during demonstrations to mark the end of the war, as people greet passing troops.

French troops in positions, trenches and dugouts during the fighting on the Western Front in 1916-1917. Distribution of food to German prisoners of war.

A German soldier behind barbed wire holding a piece of bread.

Sanitation of German prisoners of war in a camp.

German prisoners of war cutting each other's hair.

German prisoners of war sitting on the ground picking lice out of their underwear.

German prisoners of war lying on the ground (panorama).

German soldiers in a trench during a gas attack.

German soldiers throw grenades from a trench.

Smoke over a trench.

A cloud of poisonous gases.

Views of the terrain during a gas attack.

German soldiers line up before loading onto a train in August 1914, begin moving along the train.

Interior views of military factories, finished products, production processes for the manufacture of ammunition and barrels of heavy artillery guns.

Manufactured artillery guns on moving railway platforms.

Heavy artillery ammunition in German warehouses.

Heavy German guns of the Colossal system fire.

Crews of French heavy guns fire.

Explosions of shells, a view of the terrain plowed by explosions.

British tanks move through the forest, breaking tree trunks.

A German machine gunner fires from a dugout at an advancing tank.

A view of the advancing tank (from below).

The bodies of dead soldiers.

British soldiers who lost their sight as a result of a gas attack walk to the rear, holding on to the shoulder of a comrade in front of them.

Artillerymen in gas masks carry a wounded comrade away from a gun.

Large-caliber ammunition at an artillery firing position in one of the fortified areas (panorama).

Austrian military personnel being met by representatives of women's charities in 1914. Conducting parades in units of the Austro-Hungarian army.

Seeing off Austrian cavalrymen to the front.

A column of Austrian prisoners of war passes.

Faces of Austrian prisoners of war (panorama).

Meeting an admiral of the Austrian fleet.

The British naval ensign flutters.

British ships pass under a railway bridge.

The face of King George V of Great Britain.

Faces of British admirals John de Robeck, Dfvid Beatty and others.

British and French warships sailing to the Dardanelles in February 1915. Dropping depth charges on a German submarine.

Warships firing at coastal targets during the Dardanelles operation, Turkish forts under shelling.

Houses collapsing during artillery shelling.

Panorama of a destroyed city block.

French and British warships on a campaign.

Submarine periscope hidden underwater.

Deck gun crew taking their positions.

Submarine being fired upon from deck gun, depth charges being dropped from the stern.

Allied warships in formation.

French naval artillery crews in action, loading guns, firing turret artillery on ships.

Barrels of firing guns, shells exploding on the shore.

Ships of the Anglo-French fleet on a campaign.

Destroyers forming battle order.

Deck artillery turret barrels.

Types of warships on a campaign, actions of naval artillery crews.

Loading guns, firing.

Naval battles and artillery duels between ships.

Torpedo launches from deck tubes, sinking ships.

Dropping depth charges while repelling a submarine attack.

Warships on a campaign.

Officers on the bridge, combat operations at sea.

Deck artillery fire, surface targets hit, ships sinking.

King George V and his entourage climb onto the deck of a warship.

The sailors file past the king, saluting.

British Marines line up on the deck.

George V presents awards to admirals.

View of the forward part of the warship deck during the ceremonial formation (top).

A British torpedo boat passes by.

The ship is hit by a torpedo.

View and panorama of the heeling warship.

Sailors jump overboard.

The ship turns upside down, the sailors jump into the water.

Views of the bottom of the overturned ship, crew members in the water.

French pilots being awarded British orders during combat operations on the Western Front.

Officers help a pilot climb into the cockpit of an airplane.

A column of Austrian prisoners of war moves under escort past a forest edge in the winter of 1914-1915. Surrendered Austrian soldiers smoke near a Russian field kitchen; an officer approaches and takes their rifles and cartridges.

Russian soldiers in winter at the graves of their fallen comrades.

Grand Dukes Nikolai Nikolaevich, Chief of Staff M.V. Alekseyev, and Emperor Nicholas II walk past accompanied by Headquarters officers.

Nicholas II gets out of the car and receives a report from General M.V. Alekseyev.

Officers walk along a trench.

Panorama of one of the Baku oil fields and an oil workers' settlement in 1914-1916 (above).

A warship of the Black Sea Fleet is heading for the shores of Turkey.

Fire is being fired at targets on the shore from a deck gun; a fire occurs in one of the blocks of a coastal settlement.

A shell hits a building on the shore.

Soldiers in a landing craft of the Black Sea Fleet, officers observe the shore through binoculars.

Landing craft approach the sandy shore.

Russian soldiers disembark.

Soldiers fire rifles in a chain from a prone position.

A cavalry unit of the Caucasian Front passes by.

Cavalrymen in one of the settlements.

View of the flag tower and part of the Naryshkin bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress, artillery guns in the yard.

Panorama of part of Trebizond in 1916 (top).

Residents of Trebizond greet Russian troops, holding the flags of the Entente countries in their hands.

Panorama of part of the city block, view of the building of the Orthodox cathedral.

Fortress artillery guns captured by the Russian army in Trebizond.

A soldier examines one of the guns.

Cossacks destroy the communication line, cut down a telegraph pole.

Preparing an airplane for takeoff, the pilot supervising the mechanics.

The airplane flies over the airfield.

Panorama of the terrain and the settlement (top).

Mechanics help the pilot put on his flight uniform.

Starting the airplane engine.

Views of the terrain during the flight (top).

Russian army soldiers crossing a stream on a narrow log.

Actions of a Russian cavalry reconnaissance patrol.

The pilot and mechanics near the airplane before takeoff.

Panorama of the terrain during a reconnaissance flight (top).

View of the front line of Russian and enemy troops, smoke from exploding shells on enemy positions (top).

Russian soldiers and officers in landing boats depart from the side of the ship.

Carrying the wounded from the shore to an ambulance.

Unloading horses from the deck of a transport ship using a suspension system.

Soldiers and officers in landing boats.

Panorama of the ruins of an ancient fortress on the Caucasian Front.