A documentary film about the events of World War I, dedicated to all those who died without nationality, so that from now on humanity will live in peace.
France, 1930s.
A boys' school, classes are ending.
A man witnesses children talking on the street and thinks with regret that this new generation knows nothing about the war.
A cinema.
Former soldiers who took part in World War I (a Frenchman, an American, an Englishman, a Russian, an Italian, a Belgian and a German) have gathered to watch and comment on the chronicle of the war.
Their goal (and the film's) is to use this truthful material to fight against the indifference and oblivion that affects new generations.
A broken movie camera carried off the battlefield, the cameraman is killed.
Germany, Berlin.
Emperor Wilhelm II gets into a carriage.
The carriage is accompanied by a cavalry escort.
Emperor Franz Joseph I and his entourage walk along the line of troops.
The German cavalry and horsemen ride by.
June 7, 1914. Nicholas II and French President Raymond Poincaré walk along the guard of honor from the guards carriage.
A cameraman is filming.
They get into the carriage, the Minister of the Navy I.K. Grigorovich salutes them.
Paris, the North Station, a jubilant crowd greets R. Poincaré.
Germany.
Military parade, banners, military orchestra.
Photo: Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife Sophie Hotok, Countess of Hohenberg. /On June 28, 1914, they were killed in Sarajevo/.
Decree of Wilhelm II of August 1, 1914 on the declaration of war on Russia and the beginning of mobilization.
Germany.
Crowds of townspeople on the street, a military orchestra.
Recruits, boy scouts march in formation.
France.
The order on mobilization of August 2. Military parade, people on the street.
Troops marching past: infantry, cavalry.
Mobilization point, crowds of people.
Trains with soldiers leaving the station.
Graduates of the military school: formation, marching in formation.
General Joffre (Commander-in-Chief of the French Army) and Albert I (King of Belgium and Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian Army).
French cavalry, artillery.
Mobilization in Great Britain.
Lord Kitchener (British Secretary of State for War) inspects the troops.
Conscripts, Scottish Fusiliers, Marines.
Mobilization point: issuing registration certificates.
Military orchestra.
A goat (mascot) - the mascot of the military unit - is led in front.
Scottish Fusiliers.
The Germans rush to the attack.
Belgian soldiers defend the city.
Explosions.
Clearing rubble.
Evacuation of the population (women and children).
German troops march in formation.
Emperor Wilhelm.
Fragment of a feature film: cavalrymen galloping in a field.
Explosion.
The dead.
General Joffre inspects the line of Alpine riflemen.
View of a ruined city.
German soldiers march through a forest.
The German army.
Troops march through the city: infantry, cavalry.
Photo: General von Kluck in a car.
View of the Eiffel Tower through a telescope.
Paris.
Mobilization of Parisian taxis on the Marne.
Cars driving through the city.
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Chronicle of the Battle of the Marne (5-12 September 1914).
Fragments of the film: French artillery.
Attack of the German infantry.
Attack of the French infantry.
German cavalry, horse artillery in the forest.
French battery, gunners, guns.
Night filming: German infantry climbs the railway rampart.
A column of German infantry passes through a populated area.
Chronicle: the Marne River with a destroyed bridge.
Corpses of soldiers.
German infantry runs to the attack.
German infantrymen in the trenches.
General Joffre, Lord Kitchener, French officers in the trench.
Along the line of French infantrymen walk: Lord Kitchener, General Joffre, Minister of War Millerand.
English troops ride along the street, horse-drawn carts with ammunition boxes, scooters.
French dragoons and infantry march through the city streets.
A German horse battery passes by.
Cannon fire, explosions.
Model: view of the burning Reims Cathedral.
Chronicle: Reims Cathedral, panorama, broken stained glass windows.
Panorama: destroyed houses, burning city, ruins of houses.
Russia.
Moscow.
Parade.
Emperor Nicholas II, Minister of the Imperial Court V.B. Frederiks, Minister of War V.A. Sukhomlinov (with his back in the frame, hat with a sultan) accept the parade of the Life Guards Cossack Regiment.
Attack of the Russian cavalry, soldiers crawl on their bellies.
German infantrymen lie down.
Explosions.
Attack of the Russian infantry.
Barbed wire.
Explosions.
Photo: General Hindenburg, commander of the German army.
German artillery, cannon fire, explosions.
Austrian infantry charges.
German machine gunners.
Russian artillery.
Cannon fire, explosions.
Film footage: German infantry charges.
Chronicle: Austrian infantry charges.
Austrian infantrymen overcome barbed wire.
Russian trenches.
Carrying a wounded man from the battlefield.
Soldiers provide assistance to a wounded man.
Chronicle: France, September 1912. Manoeuvres of the French army.
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich salutes a group of generals and shakes hands with General Joffre.
Italy, May 1915. Gabriele d'Annunzio with a group of Italian officers.
Italian King Victor Emmanuel III talks to an officer.
Newspaper: decree on general mobilization.
Military orchestra.
Italian infantry and scooter riders march down the street.
Review of troops in the field.
Infantry marching through a village, Italian soldiers dragging a large-caliber gun uphill.
The Alps.
Mountain landscape.
Explosions.
Italian infantry in the snow-capped mountains.
Italian mountain riflemen in camouflage suits climb the mountain, moving on skis.
Floating artillery battery.
River steamboats equipped with artillery pieces.
Cannon fire.
Serbian Prince Regent Alexander, General Misic in position.
Serbian artillery, cannon fire, soldiers digging trenches.
Snow-capped mountains: soldiers pulling loaded sleds.
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I getting out of a carriage.
He is greeted by officers.
Constantinople.
Visit of Emperor Wilhelm II. A warship under the Turkish flag.
Panorama: view of the coast, the Bosphorus Strait, a coastal battery.
A warship at sea.
Turkish infantry marching through the city.
French colonial troops marching through the city.
English colonial troops, Indians marching through the desert.
A tractor passes and a convoy passes.
Loaded mules.
A camel caravan marches through the desert.
Bedouins water their horses.
France, April 1915. British Minister of War Lord Kitchener, French Minister of War Millerand, General Joffre at the railway station.
English General French talks with French General Gouraud.
Carts and cars move along the city street.
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French soldiers pull a cart with a field kitchen out of a trench; pull a heavy artillery piece out of the mud; put out fire, remove camouflage from branches to prevent it from catching fire; carry the wounded from the battlefield on stretchers; walk in flooded trenches.
Western Front.
French soldiers walk along the trenches.
Views of positions fortified with sandbags.
Winter forest.
French soldiers stretch barbed wire.
Carts and a field kitchen pass through a tunnel.
Soldiers' life: a field kitchen, hanging laundry, distribution of a wine ration, rest.
Emperor Wilhelm II with Crown Prince Wilhelm.
At the doors of headquarters, Emperor Wilhelm talks with officers, enters the doors of headquarters.
German infantry passes along the road.
Night shooting: explosions, flashes, rockets in the night sky, fire, attack of German infantry, German soldiers in a trench.
Explosions.
Attack of German infantry.
French artillery crew.
French heavy guns "Mortars".
French soldiers in the trenches, running to attack.
Barbed wire.
German soldiers throw grenades.
Views of positions.
French infantry attacks German positions.
Explosions, smoke, attack of German infantry.
Airplanes in the sky.
German soldiers in a trench cut barbed wire.
German artillery.
An episode illustrating the Battle of Verdun (1916).
Stills from the feature film, stills that have no relation to historical events.
Still from the feature film: the Verdun fortress, NDP: Fort Douaumont.
Smoke.
French soldiers in a trench, throwing grenades.
A German soldier falls.
French soldiers rush to the attack.
Flamethrower fire.
Airplanes in the air.
General Petain writes a letter.
French artillery in action.
French heavy artillery.
Guns on railway platforms.
Gun crews.
Gun salvos.
Explosions.
Destroyed buildings.
French soldiers in the trenches.
German soldiers in the trenches.
Still from a feature film: a soldier looks at his watch (detail).
The French counterattack from the trenches.
A German machine gun fires.
A French machine gun.
An Austrian gun and artillery crew.
German soldiers in a trench, covered by an explosion.
Soldiers throw grenades.
Smoke.
Gas attack.
German soldiers attack in gas masks.
A telephone operator.
A French gun.
An infantry attack.
A German machine gun fires.
An attack by the French infantry.
Machine gun belt (close-up).
Attack through barbed wire.
Stills from a feature film: French soldiers assist a dying friend.
French infantry passes along a road through a ruined city.
Trucks drive by.
The sacred road (La Voie sacree) Bar-le-Duc-Verdun, through which supplies for the troops were brought.
A column of trucks drives along the road of life.
French soldiers walk along a flooded trench, carry a machine gun, roll wagons along a railroad, mud.
Views of flooded positions.
French infantry passes.
French soldiers escort German prisoners.
A prisoner of war camp.
A column of German prisoners of war passes.
A military priest passes accompanied by soldiers.
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French medics with a red cross armband.
Military priest.
Soldiers carry a dead body.
Panorama: destroyed positions, trenches, destroyed buildings.
Broken carts, dead horses, concrete fortifications.
German soldiers climb a destroyed fort.
English King George V, General Joffre, R. Poincaré.
Commander-in-Chief of the English troops in France Douglas Haig awards a French officer.
The English army, Australian and New Zealand soldiers, Indians, Scots, English horse artillery, English infantry pass by against the background of a rotating mill.
English artillery, volleys, explosions, gun crew.
Artillerymen of the Australian and New Zealand Corps (in hats).
English infantry passes through the trenches.
Bayonets adjoin rifles.
English soldiers attack from the trenches.
German machine gun.
French artillery, English artillery.
Explosions.
Volleys.
French infantry, German infantry.
Flamethrower volley.
Film footage: a soldier dies in agony, affected by poison gas.
French soldiers in gas masks in a trench.
German soldiers in gas masks attack.
French soldiers accompany gassed men by the arm (blindfolds).
German prisoners of war, accompanied by French soldiers, carry the wounded.
A wounded English soldier.
French soldiers carry a wounded man on a stretcher.
English soldiers carry the wounded on stretchers.
Wounded English soldiers on stretchers on the ground.
Railway station, platform. 1917. American soldiers carry the wounded.
A dead German soldier.
Corpses in the trenches.
A column of German prisoners of war.
A camp for German prisoners of war.
Soldiers at rest: sleeping, changing clothes, cleaning boots, wrapping their feet in foot wraps.
French and English soldiers digging graves, burial.
American soldiers digging graves.
Poland: positions fortified with sandbags.
Military funeral ceremony in the forest.
Russia, 1912. The imperial exit of the royal family from the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin with the participation of the clergy.
Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with Tsarevich Alexei and the Grand Duchesses surrounded by officials.
Catholic mass in the open air in front of detachments of soldiers.
Polish soldiers marching in formation across the field.
Parade of French troops.
Moscow.
Red Square.
March 1917. Soldiers in greatcoats.
Oath to the Provisional Government at the front.
Emperor Wilhelm II, General Hindenburg, King Nicholas I of Montenegro.
The Italian army in the Alps: pulling a cannon up a mountain.
The movement of the French infantry to Salonika.
Troops in the mountains.
Soldiers pulling a cannon, driving loaded mules in the trenches.
Russia, Petrograd, 1917. Demonstrations in the streets, posters: /Long live freedom!/, /Long live the republic/.
Poland, m.
Bielawa, 1914. Funeral of killed German soldiers in a mass grave.
Funeral team. R. Poincaré, General Joffre, Serbian Prince Regent Alexander converse.
An English general descends the gangway onto a warship.
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War in the air.
German airship.
Film footage: explosions, collapsing houses, people running.
Airplanes in the sky.
A burning house, a crying baby in the ashes.
French soldiers loading an anti-aircraft gun.
An airship burning in the sky falls to the ground.
The metal frame of the burnt airship.
The charred body of the pilot - a French officer.
A German pilot in the airplane cockpit.
A German airplane on the ground.
Loading bombs into the airplane.
Takeoff.
Dropping bombs on the ground.
Explosions.
A collapsing house.
Destroyed buildings, neighborhoods.
Airplanes in the sky.
Dropping bombs, explosions.
A bomb hits a group of French soldiers, one man dies in front of his comrades.
Pilots in the sky.
A pilot with a movie camera is filming.
View of the city from above.
An aerostat.
A parachutist jumps out of it.
A burning parachute.
Burning balloons.
The airplane cabin, the pilot, a gunner with a machine gun nearby.
Anti-aircraft gunfire.
Air battle.
Wreckage of a shot down German airplane.
A British anti-aircraft gun.
A shot down German airplane falls into the water.
A diver descends into the water to tie the body of the airplane.
The mangled airplane is lifted out of the water.
Pilots in the sky.
A falling airplane.
An airplane collides with the ground.
A burning airplane.
The bodies of the pilots.
Wreckage of burnt airplanes.
A famous German pilot.
A famous French pilot.
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium inspects the airplane.
The pilot gets into the cockpit.
The airplane accelerates and takes off.
Air battle.
Aerobatic figures.
A German airplane.
France, Bonne-Maisons airfield, July 5, 1917. The French Squadron "Les cigognes".
Each squadron has its own emblem: a swan, a cat.
Captain Georges Guynemer - the most famous figure in French aviation.
Inspecting planes with French officers: General Franchet d'Espèrey, Captain Jean d'Harcourt, Captain Felix Brocard.
General Franchet d'Espèrey awards Captain Guynemer the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Aircraft in the sky.
Albert I and units of the First Belgian Army salute at the site where Guynemer took off on his last flight. /On September 11, 1917, ace Guynemer took off on a mission and did not return.
He died in an air battle, he was 22 years old, he had 53 official victories/.
French flag against the background of a naval vessel.
Mediterranean Sea.
French Mediterranean squadron.
French cruiser.
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War at sea.
King George V of England and his entourage walk along the deck along the line of sailors.
On the right are English sailors.
Squadron at sea.
Warship.
German fleet.
Ships at the pier.
Cannon fire.
Explosion.
The damaged ship is sinking.
Ships at sea, smoking, firing cannons.
Explosions.
Sinking ship.
A huge bomb is being loaded on the ship.
Shot.
Listing Austrian battleship "Szent Istvan" /Szent Istvan/.
Torpedo fire.
Sinking ship, smoking ships, black smoke.
German submarine U-35 at sea.
Torpedo explosion.
Sinking ship.
Cannon on the ship.
Explosions.
Sinking ships.
Corpse in the water.
Submergence of a submarine.
Civilian vessel equipped with an artillery piece.
Explosion.
Blown up ship.
Submersion.
Lowering the flag on the ship.
Submarines.
Surfacing.
Port.
The crew of a German U-boat on board the submarine salute the warship with their sailor caps.
USA. New York.
Port.
Pier 54. May 1, 1915. Seeing off the steamship Lusitania.
Departure.
Passengers on board.
NDP: LUSITANIA (detail).
Capitol Building.
President Wilson and General Pershing, on the ship.
Roosevelt.
Wilson's speech in the Senate.
Mobilized men in the streets of the city.
American soldiers march before being sent to the front.
American soldiers on board a transport ship.
Dancing.
Arrival in Europe.
American soldiers descend the gangway of a ship.
Soldiers ride on flatcars by rail, American soldiers in carriages.
NDP on a wagon: 36-40 people or 8 horses.
France.
American army units march through the city streets.
General Pershing.
Film footage: American army units on the front line.
Combat action.
American artillery, explosions.
American soldiers load guns, fire from trenches, attack, die.
Soldiers in trenches.
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Field Marshal Hindenburg walks along the line of German infantry.
Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff at headquarters above the map.
German soldiers march in formation along a country road.
German soldiers in a trench.
German soldiers fire a flamethrower, German machine gunners in a trench.
German heavy guns.
Volleys.
Explosions.
German soldiers in the trenches, German machine guns.
Combat actions.
Stills from a film: night battle.
American soldiers attack, German soldiers in the trenches.
American horse artillery, cavalry.
Emperor Wilhelm II talks with a German general.
President of the French Republic J. Clemenceau with a group of French generals.
General Foch, French soldiers pass by.
A train with equipment travels by rail.
French soldiers in carriages travel by rail.
A column of trucks drives through the city, transporting scooters.
Infantry moves through the city, through the forest.
Transporting equipment and food.
Movement in different directions.
Preparation for a combat operation.
Feature film footage: combat operations at night.
Artillery shelling, explosions, attack by German soldiers.
Newsreel footage: French artillery, gun crew.
An airplane drops bombs, explosions.
Horse-drawn convoys drive along the road against the backdrop of combat operations.
Explosions. 1917. A British MK tank on the battlefield.
The tank fells a tree.
French Renault tanks camouflaged with branches.
Attack by American infantry and tanks.
August, 1918. Foch is appointed marshal.
Ceremony in the forest: French President Raymond Poincaré, in the presence of Georges Clemenceau (President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War), Ministers Stéphane Pichon (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Louis Lucheux (Minister of Armaments and War Production), hands Foch the marshal's baton.
Marshal Foch with the marshal's baton in his hand.
General Franchet d'Esperey, commander of the Eastern Army in the Balkans, marches through the city.
Bulgarian prisoners of war walk along the road.
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September 1918. Thessaloniki front.
A column of Bulgarian prisoners of war.
Italian infantry marches.
Allied troops march through Budapest.
High-ranking military officials: King Albert of Belgium, accompanied by an adjutant and a French general, get into a car.
French President R. Poincaré walks past the troops.
A column of German prisoners of war.
Captured military equipment: artillery pieces, cannons of various calibers, etc., collected by the allies from the battlefields.
Rifles, machine guns.
General Mangin shows all these trophies to French President R. Poincaré.
View of the ruined city.
Poster: "Mines.
Mortal danger.
Entry prohibited." Clearing rubble.
French sappers clear mines.
Minister Albert Lebrun talks to the local population (women).
French soldiers pull the body of a German soldier in a gas mask from under the rubble.
Another corpse - an innocent victim.
A panorama of destroyed houses, streets, and a railroad.
French infantry marching through a grove, along a road.
A bugler from the 171st Regiment sounds. 1918, an armistice is signed.
Metz. R. Poincaré and J. Clemenceau present Henri Petain with a marshal's baton.
A cameraman films.
November 22, 1918. The French enter Strasbourg (Alsace-Lorraine).
Jubilant crowds greet the French infantry and cavalry.
Representatives of the Allied command are on the platform: British Admiral Beatty, French Marshal Foch, Italian General Diaz, American General Pershing, Belgian General Jacques.
The victorious soldiers are greeted in all European capitals and in America.
July 14, 1919. Paris, Arc de Triomphe, victory parade, soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees to the sound of La Marseillaise.
July 19, 1919. London.
Troops march across Westminster Bridge over the Thames against the backdrop of Westminster Abbey and Big Ben.
March 1919. New York, parade on 5th Avenue.
Pyramid of German helmets.
Paris.
Soldiers with banners moving towards the Arc de Triomphe.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Funeral meeting.
Wreath-laying by officials.
Men in a club giving statistics of those killed in the war by country.
Children, toddlers playing.
Cemetery, crosses, children.
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