For peace throughout the world (1920-1929)

France.

Colonel Picot shows people who were seriously wounded in the war.

Refugees.

A destroyed house.

The surviving property is carried out of it.

Refugees on the road with their belongings, with tied cows.

Among the refugees are old people and women.

Retreating army units.

Oise.

April 1918. Loading soldiers into wagons.

The train leaves for the front line.

Soldiers on the road.

Cars.

Picardy, 1918, May.

Trucks with soldiers.

Stop along the way.

Soldiers get off the trucks.

A car passes.

General formation.

A line of soldiers walks across the field.

Artillery on carts.

Trucks with guns attached to them.

October 1917. A long line of soldiers.

Fortifications.

Shells are delivered to positions.

Verdun, 1917 g.

Carts with guns and cars.

Soldiers on the streets of a destroyed city.

Soldiers walking along the street among the ruins.

Soldiers at rest.

Trenches.

Morton, August 1917. Soldiers in the trenches

France.

Peace Conference in Versailles.

Negotiating table.

Delegates of various countries.

In the conference hall.

Text of the Treaty of Versailles in front of the camera.

Its pages are turned.

The last pages of the treaty, sealed with many signatures and seals.

Entente delegations leaving the Palace of Versailles

France.

Field.

The so-called "no man's land".

In the distance - smoke from exploding shells.

Mutilated remains of the forest.

Soldiers in forward positions.

Verdun.

Winter 1917. Soldiers pull out a gun stuck in the mud.

A soldier in a trench.

Soldiers.

Machine gunners of the 47th Infantry Regiment take up a position.

Soldiers with carts.

Soldiers walk across rough terrain.

Panorama of the sector of military operations near Verdun.

Fort Dumont.

General view.

View of the fort after the bombing.

Explosion of a shrapnel shell over Fort Dumont.

A chain of soldiers in a snow-covered field near Verdun.

Casemates of the fort.

View from the casemate of the barbed wire fences.

Ruins of one of the rooms of the fort.

Soldiers in the ruins.

A sentry at the fort.

Flanders, October 1917. Soldiers carry ammunition.

General view of the "firing line".

Soldiers in the trenches.

Attack on August 22, 1917. Clouds of explosions in the distance.

Smoke on the front line.

Verdun, August 1917. The 13th battery of the 117th regiment fires at enemy positions.

Guns fire.

The village of Vaux /not far from Verdun/.

Clouds of explosions over the village.

The village in clouds of smoke

France.

The public at the Palace of Versailles.

The appearance of the delegates leaving the palace.

Wounded soldiers present at the signing of the treaty.

The crowd on the terrace.

The delegates.

The crowd runs after the delegates.

Lombardy.

Destruction of captured ammunition.

Explosions.

Before the attack.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Soldiers get out of the trenches, go on the attack.

The "second echelon" goes on the attack.

Soldiers run along the trench.

Machine gunners take up positions.

Soldiers on the attack.

The battlefield.

Soldiers in the trench.

Artillery.

The gun fires at the enemy.

A new attack.

Infantrymen fight for the heights.

Shells explode ahead.

Soldiers retreat

France.

Verdun.

August 1917. General view of the battlefield.

German prisoners.

Prisoners take cover from the attack.

A wounded man is carried by his comrades.

Lassigny, April 1918. Trenches.

Corpses and abandoned property in the trenches.

Corpses on the field.

August 25, 1917. One of the participants in the front.

Providing assistance to the wounded.

They are carried on stretchers.

A hospital near a trench.

Dressing.

Vouzieres, August 17-18, 1917. Ruins of the city.

Soldiers injured in a gas attack walk along the streets.

Sector Lezne, October 1917. Wounded.

First aid in the hospital.

Loading into an ambulance.

A doctor at the hospital.

The ambulance train leaves for the rear.

Cougny, 1917. Hospital.

View of the ward.

Soldiers visiting wounded comrades.

A nurse feeds a wounded man with a spoon.

Doctors operate on a wounded man.

Prisoners.

For them, the war is over

France.

Column of prisoners.

Prisoners in front of a camera.

Registration of prisoners.

Prisoner eats bread.

Prisoners in the camp are busy with everyday activities, writing letters.

Prisoners play chess. "Martyr cities" destroyed by the war: Begoun, Cambrai, Reims.

Views of destroyed neighborhoods.

Burning Reims.

Houses engulfed in flames.

Sector Esn.

Ruins of the city.

Castle of Follembre.

Destroyed park.

Refugees return to their native places.

The city of Tescourt.

Residents at the ruins of their home.

Ruined castle of Leomont.

Remains of walls.

Temporary houses for the homeless.

Soldiers help peasants with agricultural work.

Soldiers on tractors.

General Picot calls for the fight for peace