Newsreel of the First World War (1914-1918)

French Secretary of State for Munitions and Military Equipment Albert Thomas during a meeting with the military at the firing range during artillery tests in 1915-1916, installing heavy guns in position.

Thomas says goodbye to the generals, gets into the car, and drives away.

The ground flies apart from exploding shells, artillery fires.

German and French infantry clash in a bayonet fight, German soldiers go on the attack in 1914 during the Battle of Paris.

Text of the address to the army and residents of Paris.

Boots of German soldiers marching on the square in Brussels.

A column of Parisian taxis delivering soldiers to the front lines on the Marne in September 1914. German infantry on the march to Paris.

A column of German military trucks moves along the road.

View of central Paris with bridges over the Seine (top).

Air battle in the skies over Paris.

The pilot in the cockpit of the plane.

A damaged plane falls.

The German airship "Saxony" in flight.

The airship flies over the mast of a warship.

British soldiers fire a machine gun at an aerial target.

A shot down balloon burns in the air.

French soldiers lead their comrades, victims of a German gas attack, through the streets of the city.

Ships of the navies of the warring countries on a combat mission.

The combat work of the artillery crew of a Russian warship.

Episodes of a naval battle, transport ships sinking and being evacuated.

A ship under the US flag goes under water.

Torpedoes are launched from deck torpedo tubes.

A torpedo hits the target.

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

A sinking ship.

A horse-drawn convoy of the Russian army moves toward the front line.

Life in the trenches and everyday life of soldiers of the warring armies.

A British soldier leads a wounded comrade through a trench.

German aeronauts filling a balloon with gas.

A submarine on the surface.

A warship decorated with flags.

Warships of the German fleet.

A ship on the slipway.

German warships in the Kiel Bay.

Russian officers of the sapper units drink tea by the fire during a rest stop during the fighting in Transcaucasia in 1915-1916. Loading bales of military cargo onto the deck of an American transport ship.

Russian infantry on the march during the autumn thaw.

A column of German infantry moves.

Transporting a French heavy gun to a firing position.

American troops, who arrived in Europe in 1917, march through the streets of a city.

A pilot drops bombs on enemy positions.

The explosion of a bomb causes a wooden bridge to fly apart.

Aerial bombardment of enemy positions.

A unit of the German army runs to its positions along a city street.

Bombs falling on the roofs of houses.

Aerial bombardment of a populated area.

A unit of the German army advances to its positions.

A squadron of American aircraft in flight.

A pilot and an air gunner during an air battle, firing at air targets.

Downed planes falling to the ground.

Burning plane.

Pilot's body near plane wreckage.

Exploding shells.

A column of German prisoners of war moves.

German soldiers being captured by the British.

German prisoners of war in a temporary camp behind barbed wire.

British soldiers providing medical assistance to a wounded German prisoner in a trench.

Stretcher lines with wounded on the platform of a railway station, orderlies bringing in the wounded.

British burial team at work.

Panorama of winter forest.

Frozen corpses of soldiers near a dugout.

Funeral of fallen soldiers, work of burial teams.