The collection of articles and materials on the results of the international scientific and practical conference held on October 8-10, 2014 . in the VGIK Film Research Institute, included speeches and reports of both film historians and historians, archivists and creative film workers, whose scientific research is somehow connected with the events of the First World War . In the materials of Russian and foreign participants of the conference, archival searches about little-known and partially lost films are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Cinematographers , Fronts of the First World War , Russian and foreign military newsreel attributed in recent years, facts from the history of the Russian and foreign film process of the period 1914-1918. In a number of reports, the theme of the First World War is explored by the example of various national and regional cinemas - Australia, Great Britain, the Middle East, etc.