The Fall of an Empire. Chronicle of the Events of the First World War. Film One (1998)

Newsreel: view of central London on May 19, 1910. Funeral of King Edward VII of Great Britain, funeral procession moving through the streets of London.

Regiments of the Royal Guard marching through a London street.

Carrying the coffin with the body of the king, views of the funeral procession.

Wilhelm II among the participants in the procession.

The funeral procession moving (top).

The hearse with the coffin of the king moving.

Wilhelm II on the decks of ships during his trips to various countries.

Wilhelm II receives military parades.

Wilhelm II on horseback rides through the streets of Berlin, accompanied by a mounted escort.

A cortege of horse-drawn carriages passes.

Paintings depicting battles of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Engraving depicting the passage of German troops under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in January 1871. Panorama of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris in 1910 (top).

Everyday life in Paris before the First World War, people on the streets, in cafes.

Passengers getting out of a car.

Waiters bringing out dishes for restaurant visitors.

Visitors at restaurant tables.

Couples dancing at a ball.

The Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris.

Cabaret artists performing.

A military brass band playing.

A horse and car race at the hippodrome.

An attempt at takeoff of an aircraft.

A newspaper kiosk on a Parisian street.

An airplane flies under the Arc de Triomphe.

Panorama of a waterfall in Africa.

A native of one of the British colonies climbs a palm tree for coconuts.

Throwing coconuts to the ground, the face of a white overseer.

Harvesting bananas.

Panorama of a quarry.

Parade of French colonial troops.

Residents of Germany resting.

A military brass band playing.

Wilhelm II during a meeting with generals.

Wilhelm II accompanied by military personnel descending the stairs.

Wilhelm II getting into a carriage.

Wilhelm II greeting the military during a ceremonial event.

Photograph of Alexander III, Tsarevich Nicholas in the photograph.

Photograph of Emperor Nicholas II. Nicholas II greeting the military, officials and clergy at the entrance to the Livadia Palace.

Testing a tank to overcome a ditch and other obstacles.

Testing the first tanks at the proving ground.

Panorama of the workshop of a military plant for the production of barrels for heavy and long-range artillery guns (top).

Transportation of a long-range gun barrel.

Artillery ammunition in a finished goods warehouse.

Launching a ship.

German warships passing through the Kiel Canal.

Soldiers on the deck of a ship, the canal's swing bridge.

A German warship is sailing along the Kiel Canal.

Warships of the European powers on a campaign, an airplane in flight.

Russian warships at anchor.

Nicholas II and his heir walk along a line of naval officers on the deck of a warship.

Nicholas II greets the officers of one of the ships.

The officers take turns greeting the Grand Duchesses with a kiss on the hand.

The daughters of Nicholas II dance on the deck of the imperial yacht with members of the Imperial family and naval officers.

Naval officers in the wardroom during lunch.

One of the warships of the Russian Imperial Navy.

Nicholas II, accompanied by officers, walks past the formation of one of the regiments.

Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich inspect the troops during an inspection.

Production processes in the workshops of military factories of the Russian Empire.

A photograph of the Minister of War Sukhomlinov, bayonet fighting classes in the armies of Russia and the Entente.

Sukhomlinov among the military, alternating with freeze frames.

Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich inspect the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment at the Gatchina railway station.

Photographs of Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich during maneuvers.

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich among the military during his stay at Headquarters in 1914. Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich during a military review.

Nicholas II inspects an artillery piece.

The funeral procession with the coffin of King Edward VII moves through London.

The Emperor of Austria-Hungary drives through the streets of Vienna, greeted by the people.

Austrian troops on the march during the seizure of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1909. Panorama of Sarajevo (top).

Archduke Ferdinand during a visit to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Ferdinand and his wife get into a car.

Cars drive along the city street, the people of Sarajevo greet Ferdinand.

The arrest of Gavrilo Princip after the assassination attempt on the Archduke.

Obituaries in the newspapers.

The funeral of Archduke Ferdinand, the installation of the coffin on the hearse.

Photographs by Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov.

Views of militaristic rallies in Vienna after the issuance of an ultimatum to Serbia.

Demonstrations in Vienna against Serbia, columns of demonstrators pass through the square.

Military parade in Vienna.

Emperor Franz Joseph I during the parade.

Telegraph operators at the apparatus.

Portrait of Wilhelm II. Nicholas II meeting French President Poincaré on July 25, 1914. Nicholas II Poincaré walks along the line of the guard of honor of naval sailors.

Arrival of crews on the parade field in Krasnoe Selo.

Cars at the parade in Krasnoe Selo.

Poincaré and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna under a canopy during a military parade in Krasnoye Selo.

Nicholas II, sitting in the saddle, reviews the parade.

Guards units march in parade formation in front of the Emperor and the President of France.

Poincaré and Nicholas II get into a car after the parade.

An admiral's boat approaches a Russian warship.

Wilhelm II disembarks from the ship after a rest in the Norwegian fjords on July 28, 1914. The cars of the German Emperor and his retinue drive away from the pier.

Residents of Berlin greet the Emperor.

A document being printed on a typewriter.

The encrypted text of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia.

Photographs of Franz Joseph I, newspaper reports of the Austrian ultimatum.

Austrian infantry attacks Serbian positions up the slope.

Officers at an observation post.

Bringing a heavy mortar into combat readiness.

A mortar fires at Belgrade.

Austrian horse artillery on the march.

Austrian artillery takes up firing positions and begins firing.

Attacking Austrian infantry.

A newspaper report about Austria declaring war on Serbia.

Photographs of St.

Petersburg residents reading newspapers on the street.

Armed detachments of secondary school students march along the streets of St.

Petersburg.

A photograph of members of the Council of Ministers.

Sailors scrub the deck.

Warships on the march.

Panorama of part of the city on the Volga (top).

A military brass band plays.

Farewell to the mobilized.

Faces of the mobilized (panorama).

A steamship with mobilized soldiers departs from the pier, people wave goodbye.

A prayer service in one of the regiments of the Russian army before leaving for the front.

A priest sprinkles the soldiers' formation and the regimental banner with holy water.

A military column of cars drives through a square in St.

Petersburg, people greet the soldiers sitting in the cars.

Text of the Imperial Manifesto declaring war on Germany.

Religious procession in St.

Petersburg.

Patriotic demonstration in front of the Winter Palace.

Nicholas II and his wife greet the demonstrators from the balcony of the Winter Palace.

Panorama of Palace Square during the demonstration.

Patriotic demonstration in Berlin, Berliners greet Wilhelm II, who has come out onto the balcony of the palace.

Units of various branches of the armed forces march through the streets of Berlin.

Participants in the patriotic demonstration walk alongside military units, greeting the soldiers.

Farewell to a train with German troops leaving for the front.

Trains with German artillery go to the front.

Patriotic demonstration and troop parade in Paris on August 1, 1914. Poincaré is accompanied by ministers after returning from Russia.

Patriotic demonstrations and rallies on the streets of Paris.

General Joffre and Minister of War Millerand among the military.

General Joffre inspects troops in the frontline zone.

A military brass band plays.

A French soldier stands in formation near the regimental flag.

Joffre reviews the parade of French troops.

The text of the French government decree on mobilization.

Residents of Paris sort out newspapers and read them.

French troops march through the streets of Paris, people greet them.

Horse-drawn transport moves on the streets of London.

Members of the British Cabinet leave the building.

Scots Guards march through the streets of London.

A ship wrecked off the coast of Northern Ireland.

Rescuing passengers from a stranded ship.

First Lord of the Admiralty W. Churchill passes by.

Photograph of Churchill in 1914. Warships of the British Navy during maneuvers.

Sailors at a turret gun.

Signals being given in a troop.

Ships in a line (top).

View of a street in Brussels.

Photograph of King Albert of Belgium.

Photograph of the Queen of Belgium with children.

Vegetable seller at one of the Brussels markets.

Sausage seller in his shop.

German military trucks leaving the garage gate.

Column of military trucks moving along the road.

Unit of German infantry after disembarking their echelon advances to the front lines.

Movement of German troops along the roads of Belgium.

German cavalry overcomes an obstacle while crossing the Belgian border.

Infantry attack up the slope.

Bridge over the Thames in London.

Preparatory activities during mobilization.

Conscripts entering the recruiting office.

Poster with a portrait of King George V. Mobilized men receiving uniforms.

Navy sailors loading shells.

Farewell to the military at the station.

Columns of mobilized men march along the streets of London.

King George V walks along accompanied by military men, responding to greetings.

Priest preaches to British soldiers.

Photograph by British Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener.

German infantry units marching on the Western Front in August 1914. German officers discussing their dispositions on a map.

Artillery firing, fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Refugees on the roads of Belgium.

Refugee convoys moving west.

Belgian troops retreating.

German troops entering Brussels.

Street views of occupied Brussels.

British troops loading onto transport ships.

Troop transports en route.

Belgian artillery firing at the enemy.

Corpses of killed soldiers.

Map of the outflanking of the French army by German troops (animation).

German units marching along the roads and streets of French cities.

General Joffre inspects the troops before sending them to the front.

Maneuvers of French troops before sending them to the front.

Demonstration of means of protecting soldiers from bullets and shrapnel.

Joffre listens to the explanations of a military engineer.

Joffre says goodbye to the officers and gets into a car.

People on the streets of Paris in the autumn of 1914. Panorama of a square with a fair and amusements.

Rides on a carousel.

Public transport moving along the streets of Paris.

Passengers in trams.

Heavy artillery on mechanical traction moves along the road.

French troops march during the offensive on Lorraine.

British troops moving along the roads.

French troops on the march.

French telephone operators at the communications center.

German heavy artillery shelling French troops.

German infantry in a trench before the attack.

The infantry climbs out of the trenches and rushes to the attack.

Fighting in Lorraine and the Ardennes, artillery firing.

Corpses of French soldiers killed in the Ardennes (panorama).

The work of burial teams.

French ambulance convoys and infantry during the retreat.

Troops walk along the street of a completely destroyed city.

Airplanes in flight.

Dropping bombs from an airplane.

People fleeing an air raid.

Anti-aircraft gun firing.

Railway bridge destroyed by the Germans.

Child among the ruins.

Panorama of the ruins of a city block.

German soldiers on the street among the ruins.

German troops during the offensive in France.

Retreating French troops.

Movement of troops through a destroyed settlement.

Chairman of the French Government Clemenceau J. among the military at the entrance to the building in 1917. Officers over a map at headquarters during the defense of Paris.

Troops march along the streets of Paris.

Columns of taxis with soldiers move to the front line.

Construction of a barricade on a street in Paris.

A German bomber flies.

A French anti-aircraft machine gun crew fires at enemy airplanes.

View of one of the Parisian neighborhoods (above).

Soldiers among the burning ruins.

Clemenceau among the military.

Photograph of the commander of the defense of Paris, General Gallieni.

Text of Gallieni's appeal to the Parisians.

A steam engine at the head of a train with soldiers and an artillery piece.

Russian soldiers fishing, pulling a net with the catch.

Soldiers throw the caught fish into a barrel of water.

Russian soldiers building winter dugouts with heating.

View of a winter tent camp.

Faces of Russian officers.

Soldiers dancing to the accordion.

A telegraph machine in operation.

Nicholas II among the officers of Headquarters.

An observation post among the branches of a tree, an officer climbing a ladder into a tree.

A squad of soldiers crossing a river on a masonry bridge.

Russian troops fighting during the offensive in East Prussia in August 1914. Laying a smoke screen.

Russian artillery firing.

Russian and German troops fighting in East Prussia, Russian infantry attacking the enemy.

Reloading ammunition and military equipment onto carts from railway cars.

Russian artillerymen bring the ammunition to its final state of readiness.

General Ludendorff among the military.

Russian troops crossing a bridge.

Movement of supply trains along the roads of East Prussia.

Local population during the evacuation, people boarding cars.

Boarding of German soldiers and refugees on a train.

Photograph of General Rennenkampf.

Russian mortars firing.

Combat operations of Russian troops in East Prussia.

Cavalry advance (newsreel of the civil war).

One of the Cossack regiments on the march in East Prussia.

Photograph of General Samsonov.

One of the bivouacs of Samsonov's army.

Horse artillery moves to firing positions.

Cossacks on horse patrol.

Units of the Russian army moving along the road.

A soldier on the side of the road rewinds his foot wraps.

Russian soldiers at a halt in one of the manors.

The work of the headquarters and telegraph operators of the Russian army.

A wounded man is carried on a stretcher into a tent of a field hospital.

Officers of one of the German headquarters.

Telephone operators at the switchboard.

Movement of trains with German troops.

A unit of the German army after disembarking from a train.

Cossacks during reconnaissance.

German officers at an observation post and communications center.

German artillery fires during the Battle of Tannenberg, shells explode in the forest and on Russian positions.

Combat operations of German and Russian troops.

Russian cavalrymen gallop toward a dangerous area of the breakthrough.

Shells explode in swamps and forests.

Russian troops abandon their positions, carry out the wounded.

Advancing German infantry.

Diagram of the encirclement of Russian troops at Tannenberg (animation).

Columns of Russian prisoners move along the roads of East Prussia.

Mountains of horse ammunition taken by German troops as trophies.

German soldiers near a destroyed Russian gun.

View of one of the columns of Russian prisoners of war (top).

Retreating Russian soldiers.

Photographs of the streets of London.

British war poster.

British soldiers in formation.

Troops marching through the streets of London in September 1914. King George V reviews a parade of troops leaving for the Continent.

Columns of French troops moving along the roads to the River Marne in early September 1914. French soldiers at a halt.

Installing a coiled wire fence.

British soldiers take up positions in a trench.

Photographs of positions on the Marne.

Crowds of people in the streets of Berlin awaiting news from the front.

British soldiers in a trench receiving boxes of ammunition.

French officers at an observation post.

Combat operations between French and German troops during the Battle of the Marne.

Horse artillery moving to firing positions.

Heavy artillery firing, shells exploding on German positions.

French and German soldiers in trenches under fire.

Attacks and counterattacks of German and French infantry.

German officers at headquarters over a map.

Transportation of ammunition to a gun.

Heavy guns firing.

Movement of troops under artillery fire.

Corpses of killed soldiers.

German soldiers captured by the French, prisoners being sent to the rear.

View of a destroyed railway bridge.

German troops equip positions and put up barbed wire fences.

Equipment of capital positions and fortifications by French troops.

Death of a French soldier from a shell explosion.

German and Entente troops in equipped positions.

French sappers erect wood and earth fortifications.

Arrival of a field kitchen.

Field ammunition depot of the British Army.

French troops in parade formation during an awards ceremony.

Presentation of an award to an officer in front of the formation.

Parade of Russian troops during a military inspection in the frontline zone on the southern sector of the front.

Airplane takeoff.

Russian reconnaissance airplane in flight.

View of part of a populated area (top).

Russian army units on the streets of Lvov, panorama of the station square.

Cossacks on one of the city streets.

Russian artillery fires at the enemy during military operations on the Southwestern Front, shells exploding over the battlefield.

Serbian officers at an observation post.

Shells exploding.

Loading bombs into a Russian Voisin airplane.

Airplane takeoff.

Airplane in flight.

View of the area (top).

Fire and smoke from fires.

Airplane flying by.

View of a field airfield during airplane landing.

Panorama of Rava-Russkaya.

Austrian cavalrymen in the saddles.

Loading Austrian wounded into ambulances.

A mounted medical convoy of the Austrian army evacuates the wounded to the rear.

Retreating Austrian cavalry.

View of a street in Lviv occupied by Russian troops, motorized railcars travel along tram tracks, a horseman rides by.

Unloading Russian wounded from a tram car in Lviv.

The wounded on carts and stretchers awaiting transfer to rear hospitals.

A sentry at the headquarters gate.

Russian infantry fights in the forest, attacks the enemy during military operations on the Southwestern Front.

Russian infantry attacks the enemy in winter conditions.

View of the battlefield during the attack.

Panorama of the advancing troops.

Austrian troops climb a mountain slope in the Carpathians.

Austrian soldiers take up defensive positions in the mountains, mountain landscape (panorama).

An artillery battery of the Russian army takes up firing positions and prepares to open fire.

Officers at an observation post.

Panorama of the firing position of a Russian artillery battery opening fire.

Artillery crews at work.

Russian infantry and cavalry marching in the Carpathian foothills in the winter of 1914. Austrian officers at an observation post.

An inscription on the wall of the Bugach fortress, captured by Russian troops.

Panorama of the captured Przemysl fortress and part of a city block.

A soldier demonstrates a captured rifle, bent in a bayonet fight.

Orderlies lead a wounded soldier.

Seeing off Austrian soldiers at the train station.

German horse artillery crossing a water obstacle.

German artillery fires, shells explode.

Russian and German troops fight in the Kingdom of Poland.

Evacuation of Russian wounded from the front lines on stretchers.

Funeral service for killed soldiers.

Russian infantry crossing a river on a wooden bridge.

Officers at the headquarters building.

Retreating Russian troops.

Soldiers descend the gangplank to the shore from a ship.

Russian infantry attack across a snow-covered field on the Northern Front, soldiers lie down under fire.

Combat operations on the Northern Front.

Panorama of the area.

German officers at an observation post in a dugout, Russian soldiers take up positions in a trench.

German artillery shells Russian positions, shells explode in the trenches, German assault groups attack Russian positions.

Map of the retreat of Russian troops in 1915 (animation).

Soldiers of one of the machine-gun teams move through a forest clearing, machine guns are transported on packs.

Panorama of a dressing station in one of the villages.

Russian soldiers at a halt (panorama).

Panorama of a barbed wire fence.

General Yudenich N.N. and staff officers during the planning of another operation.

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich at a train carriage at Headquarters.

Nicholas II approaches the Grand Duke and greets him.

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich and Nicholas II among the officers of Headquarters.

Russian soldiers in landing boats before disembarking.

Soldiers disembarking.

Turkish Minister of War Enver Pasha gets into a car (freeze frame).

Turkish troops on the march.

Turkish soldiers board landing craft.

Russian troops march in the mountains during the fighting on the Caucasian Front in 1914-1915. Panorama of Russian positions in the mountains.

Officers discuss the disposition on the map.

Russian troops pass through the village they have captured.

Turkish soldiers captured near Erzurum (panorama).

Corpses of Turkish soldiers.

Throwing corpses off a cart.

A stray dog gnaws a frozen corpse.

Panorama of part of the Turkish position captured by the Russians, corpses of Turkish soldiers.

Panorama of a railway station during the unloading of military convoys for the Western Front.

Rest and everyday life of soldiers during a lull at the front.

A train passes, Wilhelm II gets out of the carriage.

The Kaiser talks to one of the generals near the carriage.

Wilhelm II and his entourage get into cars.

Wilhelm II looks through a stereoscopic telescope during a trip to the front.

Movement of French heavy artillery on mechanical traction along the road.

Parade of Italian troops in Rome in 1915. Movement of an Italian military motorcade along mountain roads.

Italian troops take up positions in the mountains.

Italian artillery fires at the enemy.

Combat operations of Italian troops in the mountains.

Climbing a heavy mortar up the mountain.

Italian infantry attacks the enemy along the mountainside, artillery fires.

Meeting of Wilhelm II with the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I. Views of positions on the fronts of World War I in the winter of 1914-1915. German soldiers celebrate Christmas in an equipped winter dugout.

Warships at sea, with a spotter balloon hanging above them.

British warships on the move.

German warships trapped in a port.

Bark being removed from trees in Germany.

Sheep being driven out of a pen at a railway station.

German women and children waiting for soup to be prepared at a railway station.

Photographs of German soldiers feeding children.

Carts with food leaving a warehouse gate.

Photographs of the town of Zimmerwald in Switzerland in 1915. A painting depicting V. I. Lenin speaking at a conference of representatives of the left-wing forces of the social democratic parties of Europe.

The text of Lenin's article "War and Russian Social Democracy", published in the newspaper "Social Democrat".