First World War (1985)

Photograph of Sarajevo.

Newsreel: arrival of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo, city and police officials greeting Ferdinand.

Franz Ferdinand and his wife getting into a car, local residents greeting them.

Arrest of Gavrilo Princip after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

Newspaper reports in European newspapers about the assassination attempt on the Austrian Archduke.

Funeral of Ferdinand, transfer of the coffin with his body to the pier.

Memorial service on the pier (newsreel alternates with animation and photographs).

Map of the world from the early 20th century showing British colonial possessions (animation).

Newsreel: a train moving.

Local residents of the French colonies working on plantations and in mines (a collage of several frames).

Panorama of the pier, ships being loaded.

Photograph of generals and officers of the German General Staff.

Emperor Wilhelm II during a ceremonial event in Berlin.

Panorama of an industrial plant in Germany.

Production processes in the workshops of German metallurgical and military plants.

Barrels for heavy artillery in a workshop of one of the Krupp plants.

The rise of a German balloon.

Parade of German and Austro-Hungarian military units.

Emperor of Austria-Hungary Franz Joseph I gets into a carriage.

Announcement of the arrival of French President Poincaré in Russia.

Poincaré and Nicholas II inspect the guard of honor.

Members of the Imperial family on a raised platform during the parade.

Parade of Russian guards units in Tsarskoye Selo.

Poincaré and Nicholas II descend to the automobile.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet at anchor.

Nicholas II and his heir inspect the crew of one of the warships.

View of the ship's bow turret.

Warships on a campaign.

The Emperor of Austria-Hungary marches with his retinue during another parade.

Portrait of Franz Joseph I. Wilhelm II talks to a general before the parade.

News of international events in Russian and foreign newspapers.

Photographs of people on the streets of Russian cities reading newspaper announcements of mobilization.

Text of the Tsar's manifesto declaring war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Mobilized citizens march through the streets of Paris.

Farewell to the mobilized at the train station, a train departing from the platform.

Troops march through the streets of Paris.

Religious procession in Russia to mark the announcement of mobilization.

Nicholas II steps out onto the balcony of the Winter Palace.

Participants in one of the patriotic demonstrations march past.

Panorama of a patriotic demonstration on Palace Square.

Mobilized soldiers and volunteers march in formation to the barracks.

Farewell to the mobilized.

A military transport ship departs from the pier, people wave goodbye.

British troops leaving for the front.

A prayer service in a Russian guards unit before being sent to the front.

A view of a patriotic demonstration.

A session of the parliament of one of the Western countries.

Military units in Germany being sent off to the front.

Units of the Russian Imperial Army marching past.

Photographs with views of Switzerland.

A painting depicting a meeting of the Bolshevik party organization with the participation of V.I. Lenin.

Texts of Lenin's articles in the publications of the RSDLP(b).

A photograph of a session of the State Duma with the participation of the Bolshevik faction.

A photograph of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Arrested people being led through the streets of Petrograd.

Arrested people being placed in a prison carriage.

Portraits of figures of the international socialist and labor movement.

Newsreel: Karl Liebknecht speaking at a rally.

View of a rally in Berlin (above).

German soldiers getting acquainted with the operational situation on a map.

German military echelons with weapons moving to the front.

A German military unit on the march.

German generals at the command post.

German artillery fires at Belgian positions.

Boots of marching German soldiers (game footage).

Map of the advance of German troops through Belgium to France (animation).

German troops on the march along the roads of Northern France.

A column of heavy artillery on the march.

German officers clarify the plan of action on the map.

The face of a soldier.

German soldiers in a trench before the attack on the Western Front.

German artillery fires at French positions.

German soldiers rush to attack through barbed wire.

Berliners in front of newspaper buildings awaiting news from the front.

French troops during the retreat.

French officers observe the enemy.

French artillery fires at the advancing German troops.

German and Anglo-French troops conduct military operations.

Development of a combat operation at Russian headquarters.

The offensive of the Russian cavalry and Cossack units in Galicia and East Prussia.

German machine gunners and artillerymen firing.

Photograph of the area near the Marne River.

Anglo-French troops before the Battle of the Marne.

Allied artillery firing at German troops, combat operations during the Battle of the Marne.

Counterattacks by Allied and German troops.

A unit of German horse artillery changes position under artillery fire.

Panorama of the positions of German and Allied troops on the Western Front in December 1914. Operation development at French headquarters.

Panorama of Russian soldiers' bivouac in the open air, snow falling.

Photographs of German generals and military units in position in the spring of 1915. Newsreel: transmission of telegrams.

The Turkish Sultan leaves the palace and gets into a car.

Parade of Turkish troops.

Turkish troops loading onto ships.

Trucks with German soldiers drive along the road.

A German echelon being brought up for loading, troops on a platform awaiting boarding.

Russian artillery fires at Austro-Hungarian positions in the Carpathians.

Officers at an observation post.

Troops climb a mountain slope.

View of part of the fortress wall in Przemysl captured by Russian troops.

Units of the Russian army on the march.

Russian soldiers take up a position in a trench.

Shells exploding on Russian positions.

German artillery fires at Russian positions, assault units go on the attack.

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

Newsreel: panorama of defensive fortifications on the Eastern Front, wire fences flooded with water.

Russian soldiers receive food from a field kitchen.

A soldier getting a haircut in the field.

Duma activists arrive in cars to one of the military units.

Soldiers, withdrawn to the rear, look for lice in underwear.

Loading the wounded into the cars of a hospital train.

A nurse examines another wounded man.

Loading bombs onto a German airplane in early 1916. A German bomber in flight.

Bombs exploding on the streets of a populated area in France (top).

German heavy artillery shelling French positions near Verdun.

Delivery of large-caliber ammunition to German positions.

French and German troops during the fighting near Verdun.

Allied troops on the march.

French soldiers inspect the destruction in a liberated city.

General A. A. Brusilov planning another operation.

A Russian artillery crew prepares a gun to open fire.

Russian officers at an observation post.

Russian artillery fires at Austro-Hungarian positions during the Brusilov Breakthrough near Lutsk.

Russian infantry and cavalry go on the attack.

Columns of Austrian prisoners march to the rear under escort.

Russian troops on the offensive in Galicia and Bukovina in the summer of 1916. Staff officers of the French and British armies plot the situation on a map.

The Allied infantry offensive in September 1916 on the Somme, supported by tanks.

Tanks and infantry overcome barbed wire.

Light French tanks on the march.

Combat operations on the Western Front, view of the battlefield.

British medics carry the wounded from the battlefield.

Corpses of soldiers on the field and in trenches.

Giving the signal for a gas attack by striking a bell.

A gas launcher fires.

Soldiers hide in trenches from a gas cloud (game footage).

An episode of an air battle, a burning balloon falls.

Artillery fires, German and Allied troops under fire.

A photograph of soldiers' corpses in a trench.

Newsreel: stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Dispersal of a workers' demonstration in London.

German women working in a carpentry shop.

Photo of a queue for groceries.

Newsreel: faces of elderly Germans standing in line for bread.

Women and children rummage through garbage.

Photographs of spontaneous markets in city squares.

Newsreel: workers from belligerent countries taking part in strikes.

Types of anti-war workers' rallies (newsreel and photographs).

Portraits of K. Liebknecht, R. Luxemburg and the organizers of the Spartacus League.

Newsreel: rallies in Berlin, rally participants scattering leaflets.

Liebknecht speaking at a rally in 1918. Photographs with views of Zimmerwald in Switzerland.

Text of the anti-war manifesto of the International Socialist Conference.

Newsreel: French troops passing through a ruined city.

A soldier carries a wounded comrade along a trench.

German troops take up a position in a trench.

English soldiers escort German prisoners.

Warships on the move.

Naval combat, artillery duel between ships.

Crew members of a German submarine on the deck before diving.

A submarine on a combat mission.

Faces of German submariners.

A torpedoed ship in the periscope eyepiece.

A sinking warship.

Warships on the move.

Dropping depth charges.

An aerostat in the sky over New York.

A military-patriotic demonstration in New York.

Photographs of military cargo and provisions intended for shipment to Europe for the warring countries.

Newsreel: view of the deck of a warship (from above).

A hand counts dollars.

Gold bars in the vault of an American bank.

View of the dome of the Capitol in Washington.

A session of the American Congress.

Rallies in the United States in favor of entering the war on the side of the Entente.

Newspaper reports of the sinking of American ships.

Newsreel: units of American infantry marching through the streets of the city.

Troops being loaded onto transport.

French tanks going on the attack.

German troops under fire.

A cart carrying coffins with the bodies of fallen soldiers approaches an Orthodox church.

A collapsed peasant house.

A woman ploughs the land.

Bread queues in Petrograd (stills from the film "October").

Newsreel: miners working in a coalface.

Disabled soldiers walking.

View of one of the industrial enterprises.

Newspaper reports of riots and strikes in Petrograd.

Newsreel: rallies during strikes.

Skvortsov-Stepanov I.I. speaks at a rally.

Photographs of rallies.

Newsreel of February 1917: marches and rallies on the streets of Petrograd.

Soldiers of the Petrograd garrison during rallies and marches.

A soldier knocks symbols of autocracy off the facade of a house with a rifle butt.

Soldiers during a rally.

Panorama of Red Square during the parade of revolutionary troops.

Patriotic demonstration for the continuation of the war.

Soldiers' rallies at the front in March 1917. A speaker addresses a rally of Russian and German soldiers during fraternization.

Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers.

Fragments of the feature film October: the cruiser Aurora enters the Neva, a shot from the forecastle gun.

Painting depicting Lenin.

Text of the Decree on Peace.

American President W. Wilson walks along the line of soldiers leaving for Europe.

Fragments of feature films alternating with newsreels: French tanks and British armored vehicles on the offensive.

German soldiers in the trenches.

Photograph of the German commandant's office in Pskov.

Newsreel: German troops on the streets of Kyiv in 1918. Photograph of the negotiations in Brest-Litovsk.

Text of the armistice terms.

Armoured cars and tram platforms with artillery on the streets of Petrograd.

Demonstrations in the capitals of the warring countries.

Newspaper reports on the revolution in Germany.

Newsreel: revolutionary troops on the streets of Berlin in November 1918. Rally at the Imperial Palace.

Portrait of Wilhelm II with broken glass.

Lowering the imperial standard.

Photograph of K. Liebknecht speaking at the rally.

Photograph of the Forest of Compiegne.

Photograph of the signing of the armistice between Germany and its enemies.

A bugler sounds the signal for a ceasefire.

Panorama of the grounds of the Palace of Versailles during the conclusion of the peace treaty in 1919. Arrival of heads of state for the peace talks.

Participants in the talks in the halls of the palace.

Text of the Treaty of Versailles.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.