Newsreel of the First World War (1914-1917)

US President Woodrow Wilson speaks on the telephone.

Wilson signs a document while sitting at his desk in his office.

A leaflet with Wilson's portrait and address.

General Pershing's face.

Pershing on the deck of a ship.

General Pershing greets French generals.

American senators speaking at rallies.

American admirals conversing.

US warships on patrol, signaling by soldiers.

The crew on deck listens to the commander's order (top).

British King George V is greeted on the deck of an American ship, reporting.

George V talks with admirals.

George V greets officers and admirals on the deck of a warship.

US Army units departing for the European theater of war march through the streets of the city to the port in 1917. American soldiers boarding a transport.

Soldiers on board a transport ship before sailing to Europe, soldiers' faces in the portholes.

Panorama of the deck of a transport ship with American soldiers on board (top).

The transport ship is heading out to sea.

The text of a newspaper report about the appointment of General Pershing as commander of the American armed forces in Europe.

President Wilson, blindfolded, participates in a lottery.

American soldiers on board a transport ship during departure (panorama, top).

Female service members on the deck of the ship.

Lunch is served in the galley.

Soldiers eat during the voyage.

A soldier feeds a puppy.

Naval officers on the bridge with binoculars.

A transport and an escort destroyer in the ocean.

Battle alert on a destroyer.

Firing at an enemy submarine from a deck gun.

Dropping depth charges.

Destroyers on a combat mission.

Soldiers disembark from a transport.

The arrival of King George V at a unit of the French army in 1916, with Marshal Joffre nearby.

George V and Marshal Joffre review the parade.

The French cavalry gallops past during a parade.

King George V inspects a line of British cadets.

Britain's Queen Mary of Teck and her entourage inspect a line of female soldiers and female ambulance drivers.

Marshal Joffre on the platform awaiting the arrival of General Haig, the commander of the British forces.

Joffre and Haig inspect the guard of honor.

General Haig and his entourage in a trench at the forward positions.

Joffre, Haig, and their entourage inspect the forward positions.

British soldiers emerge from dugouts and take their positions in a trench.

Fighting on the Western Front in winter, 1916-1917. British infantry advances to the attack.

Heavy guns fire at the enemy.

The deployment of advancing Russian infantry into battle formation.

A French infantry unit marches in parade formation during a review.

Soldiers escort a train.

Frozen carcasses are loaded onto trucks for shipment to the front.

Food is loaded at a train station.

Soldiers roll an armored platform along the rails.

French heavy artillery and infantry advance to the front lines.

Preparing positions in the mountains in winter.

A unit of mountain riflemen on skis.

Mountain riflemen climb a slope.

The funeral of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I in Vienna in November 1916. The funeral procession moves through the city streets to the Imperial Crypt.

The new Austrian Emperor, Charles I, accepts congratulations.

French generals on horseback during maneuvers before World War I. Summer maneuvers: French cavalry parade.

Generals on horseback review the parade.

French infantry on parade during summer maneuvers.

An order for general mobilization in France is painted on the wall of a building.

German infantry marches down a city street.

French infantry units depart for the front; city residents wave goodbye to the soldiers.

Map of the Western Front and defensive lines in the summer of 1914. A German infantry unit moves through a forest.

German lancers ford a river.

Map of the Western Front showing the German army's attack through Belgium (animated).

A convoy of Belgian refugees moves along the road.

German soldiers march across the square in front of the palace in occupied Brussels.

A Belgian army unit on the march.

French and Belgian troops conduct defensive combat operations.

A German army unit marches in parade formation, with drummers leading, during a review.

Refugees—women and children—walk along the roads of Belgium and northern France.

French infantry heads to the front.

A French heavy gun takes up a firing position.

Map of the French defensive line in the north of the country.

General Gallieni among the military.

Taxis transport troops to the front line on the Marne in September 1914. Views of columns of taxis carrying troops to the front.

Russian infantry bivouac in the winter of 1916, heavy snowfall (panorama).

Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers in February-March 1917. A military convoy of the Russian army crosses a water obstacle.

Events of the February Revolution in Petrograd.

Soldiers' demonstration in Petrograd in March 1917 in support of continuing the war with Germany.

Shooting of the July demonstration in Petrograd in 1917.