The collection of articles and materials based on the results of an international scientific and practical conference held on October 8-10, 2014 at the VGIK Research Institute of Cinematography includes speeches and reports by both film critics and historians-archivists and creative filmmakers whose scientific research is somehow connected with the events of the First World War. In the materials of Russian and foreign conference participants, archival searches about little-known and partially lost films are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, cameramen who worked on the fronts of the First World War, commented on Russian and foreign military newsreels 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 studied on the example of various national and regional cinematographies - Australia, Great Britain, the Middle East, etc.