1915 on Film

A rare film of Sheffield in 1915 with well-to-do women of the city out selling flowers on the streets to raise money for Alexandra Rose Day, and visiting recently wounded soldiers.

Moving record of relatives waving a fond farewell to departing loved ones during WWI.

Pioneering visual graphics – with added cotton wool – recreate an incendiary WWI incident involving a stricken British submarine.

The nation's menfolk try anything to avoid being 'called up' in this raucous WWI comedy.

High-spirited and eager Essex lads go through their paces in a rush to serve for King and Country.

Follow the sibling rivalries of two cockney costermongers in this only surviving reel of a dynamic drama.

The daughter of famed actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree gets hitched to a military Captain during WWI.

This daft comedy stars funny-duo Fred and Joe Evans in a battle to secure an inheritance from an insane uncle.

A mischievous youth causes havoc with his amphibian-assisted antics.

A cartoonist sketches out the grim stalemate of WWI through the metaphor of football.

A fleeting (sorry) but reassuring glimpse of a flotilla of Royal Navy destroyers on the skyline during WWI.

An edible bomb is cooked by the Kaiser in this fun WWI cartoon, which mixes propaganda with fantasy as a boy's dreams turn into nightmares.

Charismatic silent star Fred Paul is cast against type as a real rotter preying on innocents in the big city, in an enjoyably lurid London melodrama.

An animated recreation of the sinking of the Lusitania is the centrepiece of this pioneering mix of comedy, satire and outrage in cartoon propaganda.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Welcome help from the Empire! And Pathé's newsreel cameraman is on the spot.

The son of a wealthy merchant fakes his own death to join up, but his heroic act at the Front is wrongly attributed to his cowardly cousin.

A heart-tugging moral melodrama with echoes of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

More chalk-talker than pencil-pusher, this popular artist recreates his cartoons for the screen with flashes of added animation.

How to light your fag the old-fashioned way: tinder boxes are made for soldiers at the Front, replacing matches in the rain-soaked trenches.

Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.

Our chaps can do it again! Meet the brave men who tackled Zeppelin airships for a living during WWI.

A henpecked husband plots revenge on his boastful bachelor friend by marrying him to a seemingly meek girl who turns out to be anything but.

A Lilliputian army battles with a giant wartime observation balloon before it's towed out to sea.

The comic capers of upper-class wastrel Basil the Brainless - thrown out by his father and sent to the country, where he tries to get a job on a poultry farm...

Glimpses of Russia's doomed aristocracy - walking tall, before the revolution brought them low.

A lurid temperance tale warning of the evils of wicked women and the demon drink.

Poignant scenes capture a moment’s relaxation for a Canadian cavalry unit on Salisbury Plain.

Spellbinding scenes of peasant life in the remote and rural villages of Western Anatolia, modern-day Turkey.

Striking visual record of a prisoner-of-war camp on World War One’s Eastern Front.

Witness the birth of motion graphics in news reporting amid the ongoing Gallipoli campaign during WWI.

Only a fragment survives of this lurid tale of an Indian girl's revenge against her English lover.

The moving true story of wartime heroine Nurse Edith Cavell, recreated in the aftermath of her execution.

Brigades of stretcher-bearers and Cyclist Corps soldiers straighten their spines for parade. But who? And where?

Knowledge of Morse code and having a train driver as a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’ crime thriller.

World War One reportage from intrepid filmmaker Cherry Kearton - glimpsed in an early 'selfie'.

Powerful newsreel images of displaced Serbians seeking help at a British military base during WWI.

Top-hatted gents (one Japanese) parade through the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Shakespeare's birthday and St George's Day.

A boisterous band of Allied troops makes merry in the face of an uncertain future.

Colonel Lord Harris provides appropriate decorum and formality for a volunteer inspection in Beckenham during WWI.

Boisterous Territorial soldiers put on a show in Islington.

Was the root of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s power his 'Imperial Moustache'?

Children witness soldiers stockpiling weapons for war in this edition of the Topical Budget newsreel.

Veterans of the 1867 Garibaldi campaign lead a WWI recruiting march in Walham Green near Fulham Broadway.

A large crowd of munitions workers take a break from the factory to watch Arsenal beat Spurs 2-0 during the First World War.

Picturesque scenes as war-time sweethearts tie the knot at the beautiful Crabbet Park country estate.

Soldiers troop down a leafy Surrey lane in this intriguing wartime newsreel item.

Public anxiety about war from the air is all too real for the people of Ramsgate in this newsreel footage of the aftermath of a Zeppelin raid.

In Dublin the newsreel cameras capture a hero’s welcome for a decorated Irish Guardsman.

A curious display of new ambulance vehicles specially built for war service.

War is declared in Italy, while a returning hero is welcomed in London.

All quiet on Germany's Western Front, but the ferocity of Allied artillery bombardment is plain to see in these eerie scenes of carnage.

Travelling with the Red Cross ambulance flotillas through Montereau in central northern France.

Casualties from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle enjoy their recuperation in Kent.

Sombre and moving World War I newsreel story.

An MP's stirring speech moves the crowd to rapturous applause and the occasional tear at a recruitment rally for Kitchener's New Army.

This intriguing and beautifully-shot newsreel features sea-faring heroes, feisty females and a generous lick of paint for a Mississippi steamship.

Stirring scenes in Trafalgar Square as Labour MP Will Thorne rallies recruits for the war effort.

Glory, injury, protest and death: aspects of war captured in a complete edition of the Gaumont Graphic newsreel.

A brave young soldier receives the Victoria Cross - just one stirring newsreel story on this complete WWI-era edition of Gaumont Graphic.

Major-General Francis Lloyd, responsible for the defence of London during WWI, scrutinises a line of volunteers.

A small band of French soldiers take to the woods of the Argonne in this military exercise - probably staged for the camera.

Proud locals hold a double celebration in Shakespeare's home town.

In Milan's Piazza del Duomo a crowd gathers to hear news of Italy's entry into WWI.

The Bamforth Company translate their saucy seaside postcard humour into film comedy.

Peaceful Sarajevo and the picturesque Pliva Falls at Jajce

Pioneering early nature film with scenes of an otter swimming underwater

Animated WWI-era comic highlights from the innovative cartoonist George Studdy, creator of Bonzo the dog.

Early attempt at medieval epic with impressive locations

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the face of WWI, takes a break from pointing his finger to inspect recruits at London’s Guildhall

British women didn't sit idly at home while their men fought in WWI – they got stuck in to useful work

The mischievous Pimple takes to the bottle in this entertaining comedy

Time for the Harlequinade: the traditional topsy-turvy act of the Christmas pantomime

A burglar confesses to killing a woman in this incomplete early crime drama.

Romantic melodrama about a woman who loses both her parents and innocently falls in with a bad crowd.

The first reel of a short film about two lonely people, a seamstress and a soldier, finding love over a shirt.