Newsreel of the First World War (1914-1916)

A French soldier talks to captured German soldiers in 1916. Registration of German prisoners of war.

A German soldier chews bread behind barbed wire in a temporary prisoner of war camp.

German military doctors keep records of patients while sitting at tables in front of the medical barracks.

German prisoners of war in the camp play chess and cards with each other.

Berliners gather outside the Imperial Palace on July 31, 1914, before the Kaiser's speech declaring war.

People gather under the balcony where Kaiser Wilhelm II is standing.

Patriotic demonstrations on the streets of Berlin, crowds of people in the streets.

View of a patriotic demonstration in Hamburg on July 31, 1914. Troops march through the streets of Hamburg, with patriotic demonstration participants walking alongside them.

Troops march through one of the squares of Vienna on July 28, 1914, and a column of participants in a patriotic demonstration passes through the square.

Russian soldiers captured by the Germans during the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia, August 26-30, 1914. Panorama of a column of Russian prisoners of war (top).

A Cossack patrol on patrol during military operations in East Prussia in August 1914. Movement of Russian army units.

German troops storm a house and engage in street fighting with Russian troops in one of the towns of East Prussia (staged scenes).

Civilians leave their homes and take their property (staged scenes).

German infantry, supported by artillery, storms a Russian stronghold in one of the residential buildings (staged scenes).

Soldiers run through burning ruins.

German horse artillery marches to the forward positions.

German uhlans gallop into the attack.

Map of the Battle of Königsberg in the summer of 1914 (animation).

The people of East Prussia greet General Hindenburg.

Austrian artillerymen roll a gun into position.

An Austrian artillery gun fires.

Austrian infantry attacks the enemy up a hill.

The crew of an Austrian heavy gun in action.

Archduke Charles at an observation post near a telescope.

Artillery officers at a command observation post.

Raising the barrel of an Austrian mortar.

Heavy artillery guns firing.

Austrian cavalry on the march in the mountains.

German lancers enter a village.

A German horse battery fording a water obstacle.