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Hotchkiss M1914 with tripod - 8x50mmR Lebel / 7.92x57mm Mauser / 11mm Gras

The Hotchkiss M1914 (French: Hotchkiss Modèle 1914) machine gun was the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company of Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss. The M1914 was the last version of a series of nearly identical Hotchkiss designs (Mle 1897/1900/1908). The Hotchkiss M1914 replaced the St. Étienne Mle 1907 and became standard for the French infantry in late 1917. The American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in France also used the Hotchkiss M1914 extensively in 1917 and 1918.

The Hotchkiss machine gun remained in active service with the French army until the early 1940s and used by the Germans for secondary troops guarding installations during World War II. The Japanese produced two variants under licence, the Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun chambered in 6.8mm Arisaka and the Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun chambered in 7.7mm SR. Both retained the strip feed of the original.

Specifications

(1914 - 1920)

Type: Machine gun

Caliber: 8x50mmR Lebel, 7.92x57mm Mauser, 11mm Gras

Capacity: 24 round strip, 250 round belted box

Firemodes: Fully automatic (450 RPM)

The Hotchkiss M1914 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Big Parade		American soldiers	AA-mounting	1925
Verdun: Visions of History		French soldiers		1928
Westfront 1918			mounted in a tank	1930
Wooden Crosses		French soldiers		1932
La Bandera		Spanish Foreign Legionnaires		1935
The Defense of Volochayevsk		Imperial Japanese Army		1938
If War Comes Tomorrow (Esli zavtra voyna)		Enemy troops		1938
Commandant of the Bird Island (Komendant Ptichyego ostrova)		Japanese spies	Type 38 (Hotchkiss M1900)	1939
Disappearance of "Oryol" (Gibel "Orla")		Red and White Army soldiers		1940
In the Rear of the Enemy (V tylu vraga)		Finnish soldiers		1941
Fighting Film Collection No. 3 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 3)	Viktor Arkasov	Sgt. Sharov		1941
	Pyotr Savin	Pvt. Belkin
	Vladimir Shishkin	Pvt. Kalachyov
		German soldiers
Aleksandr Parkhomenko		Anarchists		1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8)			In weapon cache	1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 12 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 12)			Abandoned on battlefield	1942
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don)		German soldiers	Belf-fed	1957
The Golden Eshelon (Zolotoy eshelon)			Mounted on White Army armoured train	1959
The Guns of Juana Gallo	María Félix	Ángela Ramos 'Juana Gallo'		1961
	Jorge Mistral	Guillermo Velarde
		Mexican soldiers, rebels
Lawrence of Arabia		Turkish soldiers		1962
Weekend at Dunkirk		French soldiers		1964
Viva Maria!		Mexican soldiers		1965
Lost Command			Seen on a gun emplacement	1966
Is Paris Burning?		French Resistance fighters		1966
A Professional Gun (Il mercenario)	Franco Nero	Sergei Kowalski		1968
	Tony Musante	Paco Roman
	Giovanna Ralli	Columba
		Mexican rebels
A Bullet for the General	Lou Castel	Bill 'Niño' Tate		1968
Hornets' Nest		German Soldiers	Fake barrel extension	1970
I Am the Law (Il prefetto di ferro)		Italian Carabinieri		1977
March or Die		French Foreign Legionnaires		1977
The Big Red One		Vichy French soldiers		1980
The Ace of Aces (L'As des as)		French soldiers		1982
Deal of the Century			Seen in the Gundealer's Room	1983
Libertarias		Anarchists		1996
Legionaire	Jean Claude Van Damme	Alain Lefevre		1998
The Lost Battalion	Anthony Azizi	Pvt. Nat Henchman		2001
Once Upon a Time in Mexico		Masked loyalist		2003
A Very Long Engagement		French soldiers		2004
Joyeux Noël		French soldiers		2005
Flyboys				2006
Day of the Falcon (Or noir)		Nasib's soldiers	Mounted in armored cars	2011
Dunkirk		French soldiers		2017
To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde)		French soldiers		2018

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade)		Spanish Republicans	Modelo 24, mounted on Bilbao Modelo 1932 armoured car; Seen in documentary footage; Ep.5	1984
Mail Call			Season 2; Archive footage	2002-2009

Video Games

Game Title	Notation	Release Date
Medal of Honor: Underground	Mounted	2000
Battlefield: 1918		2014
Battle of Empires : 1914-1918		2014
Rainbow Six Siege	Unusable; seen on background	2015
Battlefield 1	"They Shall Not Pass" DLC; mounted on French tanks	2016

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Golden Kamuy	Arisaka Nariakira	Ep. "The Great Plan to Infiltrate the Asahikawa 7th Division!!"; Hotchkiss Type 38	2018

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