City transport in Paris, France during World War 1. Passengers inside a train on the Paris Métro. An M1 rolling stock train arrives at a Paris Métro station. People disembark from the M1 train. Passengers walking down the stairs. Cafe scene with Parisians dining al fresco outside a bistro restaurant on a crowded street with pedestrians and traffic. Passengers inside a moving Paris tram (trolley, streetcar) filmed from camera positioned in an adjacent moving vehicle. Paris trolley filled with passengers moves along a street.
French soldiers traverse through the uneven and muddy landscape of the battlefield at Verdun (WW1). Some French soldiers use walking sticks to hike through the uneven field. French soldier on a trench. French soldiers without helmets walking up a hill. French soldier carrying a device attempts to cross a puddle, but slips down. A French soldier jumps toward a muddy puddle. A huge muddy explosion. French soldiers stagger through muddy landscape. French soldiers helping a soldier lying in the mud.
French Army communications during World War 1. French soldiers marching along a road. French officers typing using typewriters inside an office. French soldier keys in telegraph orders after receiving them French radioman, wearing headphones, tunes a radio and takes notes. A French officer in a trench uses a telephone while connecting patch cords into a switchboard,
Allied forces attack the Hindenburg Line (also known as the "Siegfriedstellung", or "Siegfried Position") on the Western Front in World War 1. Men firing artillery. A tank reverses. British soldiers, holding bayonets, carefully move through barbed wire, following a tank (named "Mary"). Tank crosses a small wooden bridge, with British infantry following. British soldiers slide into a trench. German soldiers, taken as prisoners, are being led away by Allied troops.
The ship Aurora, a Pallada-class cruiser of the Russian Navy, fires a blank shot from a forecastle gun at the Winter Palace in Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg), signaling the start of the October Revolution on October 24 1917 O.S. (November 6 1917 N.S). Revolutionary Bolsheviks, holding rifles and the Bolshevik flag, stand on a vehicle driving in Saint Petersburg. The gate at the Winter Palace (Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Central District, Saint Petersburg, Russia). Bolsheviks on the balcony of the Winter Palace. Vladimir Lenin smiling. Cheering Russians crowd Saint Petersburg. Vladimir Lenin addresses the crowd during the Russian Revolution.
King Albert I of Belgium and his wife, Elisabeth of Bavaria (the Queen of Belgium), make a triumphant return to Brussels after the end of World War 1. Belgian infantry marches through streets with crowds watching in Brussels. Along a street near the Royal Palace (likely Rue Royale), a military parade takes place. King Albert I rides on horseback, with Elisabeth of Bavaria (the Queen of Belgium) following behind. Belgians give a "Hero's welcome" to the Belgian Royal Family in Brussels.
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