Newsreel of events in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and the First World War (1903-1923)

Troop parade in Berlin in 1895. Bismarck at the parade.

Young members of the British royal family perform rifle maneuvers during a game.

Nicholas II and his entourage during a ceremonial event in the 1910s.

The imperial exit in the Kremlin in 1912-1913. Wilhelm II and his wife, accompanied by members of the retinue, walk to the carriages.

Children perform for the German Emperor.

Wilhelm II during his travels around Germany.

Panorama of a military plant workshop, manufacturing barrels for naval artillery (top).

Manufacturing large-caliber ammunition.

Artillery guns on railway platforms leave the plant grounds.

A speaker delivers a speech at a rally.

The imperial motorcade drives through the streets of Vienna during the celebrations of the wedding of Archduke Karl in 1911. Guests are met at the train station.

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary during ceremonial events.

Presentation of flowers to the Emperor.

Franz Joseph I getting into a carriage.

The newlyweds on the balcony accepting congratulations.

Archduke Karl and his wife Zita of Bourbon-Parma accepting congratulations from Franz Joseph I and guests on their wedding day.

Faces of the guests.

The newlyweds surrounded by guests.

Franz Joseph I and Wilhelm II during a wedding celebration.

A unit of the Bulgarian army marches along a village street during the First Balkan War in 1912. Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand in the window of a carriage.

Bulgarian field hospital.

Bulgarian officers examining a map of the military operations.

Turkish soldiers who were captured are marching under escort.

A ceremonial launching of a warship of the Austrian fleet.

Military parade in Berlin, units of the Imperial Guard marching.

Wilhelm II inspecting the guard of honor.

Wilhelm II takes the parade.

Marching guards units.

German military leaders during the ceremonial event.

Parade of the Prussian guards and cavalry units, Wilhelm II, sitting in the village, takes the parade.

Guests gather for the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States elected in 1912. Wilson gives a speech.

Military parade in Washington in honor of Woodrow Wilson's election as president of the United States.

Wilson's carriage drives through the streets of Washington, Wilson responds to greetings.

Military parade in Washington.

Wilhelm II during the opening ceremony of the memorial to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1913. Solemn procession to the memorial.

Wilhelm II and his entourage walk to a specially erected tent.

Wilhelm II, accompanied by officers of his retinue, goes around the participants of the ceremony, greeting them.

Warships of the German fleet in the Kiel Bay (panorama).

Wilhelm II arrives at the naval parade.

The battleship Gneisenau sails through the Kiel Canal.

View of the battleship's deck superstructures.

Sailors dance on the deck during a rest period.

Ships of the German fleet on a campaign during another set of maneuvers.

Members of the German imperial family during a rest period.

German troops lined up for a parade in 1914. Wilhelm II talks to military personnel and politicians before the start of the military parade.

Cavalry units on parade.

Ceremonial welcome of Archduke Karl and his wife.

Austrian non-commissioned officer in front of a line of soldiers.

Archduke Karl speaks to soldiers standing in formation during maneuvers in 1913-1914. Archduke Karl and his military entourage sit on horseback.

Austrian soldiers captured during the battles of World War I. Austrian admirals board a ship.

The British naval ensign flies.

Warships pass under the span of the bridge.

King George V of Great Britain in naval uniform.

Faces of British admirals.

Ships of the British fleet on a military campaign.

Dropping depth charges.

Naval artillery shelling enemy coastal fortifications in the Dardanelles in February 1915, destruction on the shore.

Panorama of part of the destroyed coastal quarter.

British warships on a campaign.

Detection of a German submarine, the crew takes their places on alert.

Firing at an enemy submarine from deck guns.

Formation of French warships.

Work of naval artillery gun crews, the process of reloading a gun, firing at the enemy on the coast.

Barrels of firing guns.

Formation of warships.

Warships of the British and German fleets on a campaign.

Barrels of naval guns.

Episodes from the Battle of Jutland in the Baltic Sea in 1916. Loading the breech of ship guns, ships during naval battles.

Launching torpedoes from torpedo tubes.

Actions of naval gunners, sinking ships.

Dropping and exploding depth charges, a destroyer during a combat mission.

Episodes from the Battle of Jutland, shells hitting ships.

King George V during a visit to one of the warships.

The crew walks in front of the king along the deck.

George V presenting awards to officers.

View of the bow of a ship, the crew salutes the king (top).

A torpedo boat attacks a target, a torpedo hits a battleship.

Views and panorama (top) of a damaged warship listing to the side during the battle in the Adriatic Sea.

View of a warship capsizing, sailors jumping into the water.

A ship turned upside down, sailors swimming for their lives.

French pilots being awarded British orders in 1915-1916. A pilot boards an airplane.

A French pilot boards an airplane.

An airplane taking off.

Inspection of French airplanes by Allied representatives.

Baron von Richthofen among his comrades in arms.

An airplane taking off on an airfield.

Airplanes flying over an airfield.

Awarding a French pilot.

A French pilot demonstrating his airplane to generals.

Canadian pilot Bishop at the entrance to a residential barracks in 1917. American and French pilots at the grave of a comrade in arms in 1918. A homemade grave cross with an inscription.

Pilots running up to a landed airplane.

The pilot, without getting out of the cockpit, talks about the flight.

The balloon taking off.

Repelling an airplane attack on the balloon.

The airplane machine gunner firing.

An anti-aircraft gun firing.

The airfield crew holds the balloon by the cables (from above), firing at the airplane from a machine gun.

An anti-aircraft gun fires at an aerial target.

View of a damaged French airplane.

Assistance to a pilot.

An airplane flying by.

A burning and falling balloon.

A French bomber takes off on a mission.

Dropping bombs on a target, explosions on the ground.

French fighters take off on a combat mission.

An airplane attacks an enemy balloon.

A burning balloon.

A French airplane in flight, German soldiers are captured.

Destruction of enemy balloons by airplanes, an aeronaut jumps out with a parachute.

Takeoff of the German airship "Schwabia" in 1911. Panorama of city blocks (top).

An airship in flight.

One of the German airships flies over the masts of ships during World War I. Air defense searchlights illuminate the night sky in search of targets.

Firing from anti-aircraft guns and machine guns at night at a detected aerial target, flashes of gunfire.

The fall of the burning envelope of the balloon.

Wilhelm II talks with one of the military leaders.

The crew of the deck gun of the German submarine checks the operation of the mechanisms.

Firing from the deck gun of the submarine at a transport ship.

Sinking transport ships.

Destruction of the Entente transport ships by German submariners from deck guns, burning and sinking transports.

The submarine commander on the bridge.

A sailing ship captured by German submariners.

A ship torpedoed by a German submarine submerges.

View of a warship disguised as a transport ship.

The British flag on the mast.

The crew on the deck of the ship.

The German submarine goes under water.

The camouflage shields hiding the anti-submarine gun are folded back.

Firing at the German submarine.

Bringing the anti-submarine deck gun to combat position.

The capture of the British crew by German submariners.

Sinking ship.

Destruction of British transport ships by German submariners.

Sinking transport ships.

American troops disembarking from ships after arriving in the European theater of war in 1917. Soldiers descending gangways onto the docks.

American infantry units march past the port warehouses.

City residents greet American troops passing through the streets.

French women throw flowers to passing soldiers.

American troops march through the streets of the city.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

Nicholas II with the heir leaving the building of the Life Convoy barracks.

Nicholas II reviews the parade of the Life Convoy.

The convoy commander talks with Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich and the Grand Duchesses.

Nicholas II and his entourage inspect the Life Convoy formation.

Nicholas II addresses the officers of the Life Convoy standing in formation.

Nicholas II with the heir and his daughters among the officers of the Life Convoy.

Russian troops of the Caucasian Front during the march.

Soldiers of the Russian army at a rest stop.

Slightly wounded getting out of an ambulance.

Mobilized soldiers getting into carriages.

Soldiers at a bivouac and during a rally. A.F. Kerensky among his admirers in March 1917 in Petrograd.

A column of one of the soldiers’ demonstrations.

The funeral procession moving along the Field of Mars in Petrograd on March 23, 1917, during the funeral of the victims of the February Revolution.

Soldiers’ demonstration in Petrograd in 1917. L.D. Trotsky speaking to Red Army soldiers at a rally during a trip along the Eastern Front in 1918. The Red Army parade on Red Square in Moscow in 1922-1923. Trotsky reviews the parade, with K.E. Voroshilov standing nearby.

Trotsky inspects the line of troops.

Snow-covered streets of Russian cities in the winter of 1917. Lunch for the starving, organized by a charitable society in the fresh air.

Distributing hot food to children.

The Tsar Bell on the snow-covered grounds of the Moscow Kremlin.

Lenin V. I. in the Kremlin during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. Krupskaya N. K. writes a text, sitting at a table on the deck of the propaganda steamer "Red Star".

Lenin and Krupskaya in their Kremlin apartment during an interview with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. Lenin's face giving an interview.

Welcoming the King of Great Britain George V, disembarking from the ship during a visit to France in July 1917. George V during meetings with the military and award ceremonies.

George V talks to the military, standing by a car.

George V during a meeting with General Joffre, British and French military.

George V meeting with the President of France Poincaré.

Politicians and diplomats during negotiations.

Parade of the Belgian army.

Parade of Serbian units on the Salonika front.

A British military unit during formation on the city square.

Representatives of the military, the Jewish diaspora and priests of various faiths during a ceremonial event.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff over a map of military operations.

Hindenburg and Wilhelm II descend the steps of the entrance to the building.

Wilhelm II talks to Hindenburg while standing by the car.

Hindenburg during meetings with wounded soldiers and veterans.

Wilhelm II talks to Hindenburg during a reception.

Wilhelm II, Hindenburg and the military accompanying them leave the building.

Meeting of Marshal Foch with the commanders of the American and Italian troops, Generals Pershing and Diaz in 1918. The face of General Diaz.

Foch talks to Pershing.

Review of the Entente forces on the front line.

British military during the review.

Clemenceau's arrival at the front in late 1917, meeting before the parade.

Faces of soldiers from various Allied armies.