World War I (1914-1917)

German soldiers shaving in the field.

Staff officers of a German infantry division inspect new machine guns.

Refugees at a train station cook soup for children over a fire.

A German soldier climbs into a train car with refugees.

A Russian cavalry unit before leaving for the front.

Inspection of mobilized horses by German military veterinarians.

Testing a German tracked-wheel truck.

Testing a tracked all-terrain vehicle.

German soldiers evaluate the cross-country ability of a captured French Renault tank crossing a ditch.

The tank gets stuck in the ditch.

The tank attempts to overcome obstacles made of rails.

The tank rolls over a thick log.

View of part of a destroyed building.

Representatives of the International Red Cross providing assistance to the civilian population.

Troops parade in Berlin.

A unit of cyclists at the parade.

Patriotic demonstration in Vienna.

A burning windmill.

Refugees flee a village in Galicia.

A parade of naval personnel in Berlin, participants in the Battle of Jutland in June 1916. Police hold back the crowd on the sidewalk as the naval personnel march in a ceremonial manner, rifles slung over their shoulders, and a brass band follows.

Celebrations marking the German navy's victory in the Battle of Jutland.

A team of oxen pulls a heavy artillery piece along the road.

A crew of an Austrian heavy artillery piece performs combat operations.

A platoon of horse-drawn Austrian guns moves along the road.

Soldiers wash themselves in a small pond.

A panorama of a soldier's cemetery in a dilapidated village.

Bread being baked in an Austrian field bakery.

Views of a destroyed railway bridge and boats crossing the river.

Flames of a fire rise.

A panorama of a square in Berlin in the summer of 1914, people in the square.

A car drives through the streets of Berlin.

Berliners run to greet Kaiser Wilhelm on the square.

People listen to the Kaiser, standing on the palace balcony, address the people announcing the declaration of war on Russia.

Patriotic demonstrations on the streets of Berlin.

A view of part of a burned-out city block in the war zone.

A British bicycle patrol passes through a French village, children and teenagers running after the cyclists.

Soldiers from a British patrol and local residents near a wall with the inscription in German "God punish England!".

Panorama of the construction of a front-line railway and bridge by the British military, the movement of horse-drawn carts across the bridge.

French military and representatives of civil authorities in one of the liberated villages.

Officials get into a car.

French soldiers greet the residents of the liberated village.

A French soldier with a boy in his arms.

View and panorama of the destroyed village (from above).

View of the destroyed church (from the inside).

Views of the battlefield.

British soldiers and officers at the front.

German soldiers captured by the British.

A British heavy tank Mk moves under its own power to the front line in 1916. German prisoners of war carry the wounded on stretchers.

British soldiers equipping a position.

The movement of British artillery to the positions.

Loading ammunition into boats by British soldiers.

Installing a barbed wire entanglement.

Soldiers and officers of one of the British regiments with a mascot dog.

Half-sunken ships in the port.

A warship at the pier.

The hull of one of the port warehouses.

Destruction of the metal structure.

A burning village house.

Explosive shells.

Destroyed products of one of the aircraft factories.

Bringing an artillery gun into combat readiness.

The attack of the British colonial cavalry.

A squadron of bombers in flight.

Falling bombs.

A warship fires its main battery.

The launching ceremony of a warship.

A salvo of artillery from a warship.

French light tanks "Renault" move to the front.

French junior cadets at a drill lesson, faces of the cadets.

Training of cadet units of the Entente countries.

Airplanes with running engines at the airfield.

Airplanes spraying toxic substances.

British aircraft take off from the airfield.

A bomber flies by.

Falling bombs.

American tanks "Christie" and French Renaults make maneuvers and overcome obstacles.

The British naval ensign flies.

British flying boats drop bombs into the water.

A torpedo approaches its target.

Warships fire their main caliber.

The British submarine M2 with a seaplane on board during a combat mission in the early 1930s.

A seaplane takes off from the deck of a submarine.

A submarine dives.

Bombs fall into the sea.

American warships on a mission.

A seaplane takes off from the catapult of a warship.

Panorama of a small town.

Bridge over a river.

Landscapes of the foothills of the Alps.

German soldiers and sailors in a street cafe.

A German soldier with a cow.

Austrian cavalry on a city street.

People at the foot of the equestrian monument to the Emperor.

Prayer service in the countryside.

Panorama of part of a village in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, women washing clothes in a stream.

Russian prisoners of war in a German camp.

Distribution of hot food to prisoners.

Faces of Russian prisoners of war who have received food.

The population of the city greets German troops passing through the streets before being sent to the front.

Marching German infantry.

French refugees leave a village.

Refugees carry their belongings along the road in a donkey-drawn cart.

Panoramas and views of destroyed and burning neighborhoods.

Dead soldiers lie in the grass.

French infantrymen defending a suburb of Paris in September 1914. Dismantling a brick arch.

Construction of a barricade from paving stones on a Parisian street.

French troops set fire to the neighborhood they abandoned.

Destruction of buildings by explosions.

A derailed steam locomotive lying on its side.

Combat on the Western Front.

British heavy artillery fires at the enemy.

A unit of British infantry marches along the front line.

Life in the trenches of British soldiers, searching for lice in hair.

Burial Civilian corpses.

British military funeral.

A column of taxis with soldiers heading to the front on the Marne in September 1914. French soldiers in one of the taxis.

Nicholas II reviews the troop parade in Petrograd in the summer of 1914. Shells explode on the battlefield.

Russian and German troops are engaged in combat, the Russian cavalry charges.

Russian infantry takes up a position in a trench, an officer falls.

German and Austrian troops are engaged in combat.

Russian artillery fires at the enemy.

Russo-German encounter battles, the removal of a wounded man.

Russian soldiers at a rest stop pick lice out of their underwear.

Russian troops on a city street.

British camel cavalry marches in the Middle East theater of military operations.

Russian troops are engaged in combat on the Caucasian Front, pulling artillery and supply trains up a slope.

Preparing to fire large-caliber artillery ammunition.

Loading British heavy gun.

The gun is firing.

British troops at the front.

Unloading a stretcher with a wounded man from a French ambulance.

A soldier sleeping in straw.

Destruction of buildings by artillery fire.

The population of Germany donates metal products for the needs of the army.

German ration cards.

Selling bread with ration cards.

Combat aircraft in flight.

German pilots near an aircraft.

The aircraft begins its takeoff run and takes off.

Loading bombs onto the aircraft.

German aircraft at the hangars, one of them is taxiing for takeoff.

The pilot in the cockpit.

Views of a populated area (from above), an observer takes aerial photographs.

View of the battlefield during the fight, infantry movement (from above).

A pilot-observer prepares to drop a bomb, a bomb hits a building.

Airplanes flying.

A balloon in the air.

An aircraft attacks an aerostat.

An observer from an aerostat jumps out with a parachute.

A British anti-aircraft machine gun crew.

An aircraft sets fire to an aerostat.

The aircraft gunner fires from Machine gun.

Falling burning balloon.

Airplanes flying and falling.

German zeppelin before takeoff.

Zeppelin flying over a city.

Zeppelin flies over a warship.

A report in a British newspaper about the bombing of coastal cities by German zeppelins.

Zeppelin carries out bombing, buildings explode, people flee in panic, Londoners affected by the bombing (alternating).

German warships.

German sailors load a torpedo into a deck torpedo tube.

Destroying surface targets with deck artillery, burning and sinking ships.

Bringing a deck gun hidden by hatches into combat position.

German submariners fire on a ship from a deck gun.

The damaged ship goes under water.

Servicing the deck gun of a German submarine after firing.

Officers on the bridge of the boat.

The sinking of British ships by German submarines, sinking Ships.

The capsizing and sinking of a sailing vessel.

British submariners on the deck of a submarine.

The sinking of British ships by German submarines.

The crew of a submarine in formation on deck upon returning to base.

Farewell to the transoceanic liner Lusitania in New York City in May 1915. The Lusitania leaving port.

US President Wilson holds a charity lottery.

US presidential candidate T. Roosevelt speaks at a rally.

A rally in the USA. Patriotic demonstration in the USA in 1917. Volunteers who have enlisted in the army march in formation.

American troops on the deck of one of the transport ships en route to France.

Soldiers wave goodbye from aboard the transport ship.

Military transport ships and warships sail across the Atlantic.

A parade of American troops in Paris in June 1917; Parisians salute American soldiers.

Trains carrying American troops depart for the front lines.

A sign on the wall of a train car indicates the number of men and horses.

The train passes a station.

A unit of American infantry after disembarking from the train cars.

American and British soldiers in a trench during a rest period.

Trench life.

Heavy artillery ammunition stacked in a pile.

British soldiers march down the street of a French town.

British infantry rises from a trench to attack.

Shells explode, attacking infantry in smoke.