Fury in the Pacific
Fury in the Pacific is a 1945 documentary short film about a pair of World War II battles in the Pacific: the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur.
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WWII - THE ENEMY JAPAN (1942)
Hosted and narrated by the former US Ambassador to Japan (1932-1941), Joseph C. Grew, this film pulls no punches in helping the audience size up the mind and metal of the Japanese people.
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WWII - Captured Japanese Military Newsreel with Sound! Covers Air Force, Navy, Civilian Life, War Progress
This exceptional 1942 military newreel gives a viewpoint of the war from the Japanese perspective in a variety of locations. With sound, but needs translation. NIPPON NEWS, NO.14 (1942) seized Japanese film. Rows of Japanese soldiers, men on horseback, Emperor Hirohito attends the Japanese Naval Academy graduation ceremonies and watches cadets march in review. Japanese fleet at sea, men standing on submarine. Japanese pilots, man briefs pilots, pilots salute, Japanese planes fly in formation, aerials of land, aerials of bombs exploding on ground below. Hirohito attends Japanese Naval Academy graduation, Hirohito reviews cadets, cadets salute. Japanese machine gunners advance into position on battle field, men fire guns, attack on Ichang. Chinese volunteers in the Japanese Navy are examined by a doctor, stepping on scale, medical examination, running, volunteers clean themselves, group performs calisthenics, men in row boats, drills. Japanese men standing on boat, sailors performing various duties, men rowing on boat, raising flags, German submarine, men with binoculars, view through submarine telescope, man looks thru telescope, freighter is torpedoed and sunk, planes fly in formation, pilots flying in cockpit, sunk ship. Crowd of pilots, planes take-off, pilots wave, planes in formation, bomber planes, aerial of bombs dropping and exploding.
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WWII - Battle of the Netherlands, Capture of Antwerp
Armoured elements of the British Second army advance in the Netherlands. The Germans are in retreat, bridges are blown as they leave. Assault boats are put into use. Towns are liberated. Flooding as a result of RAF raids on dykes is shown. Antwerp is liberated. British armada and RAF attacks. Landing of men secures a foothold. British Commandoes come ashore
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WWII - Testing German 155 mm Artillery Shells
Captured German 155 mm shells are tested and refurbished for Allied use. German shells can be used in Allied artillery. Other story shows how local lumbar mills in Europe are used for supplies for the Allies.
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Ingenious Artillery Plan to Supply a Trapped Battalion
Medical supplies and food are loaded into artillery projectile containers and blasted over to a trapped US 7th Army battalion in Northern France. Times fuses will open the shells over their targets. The men are rescued later and their faces show the scars of battle.
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US Ninth and First Armies cross into Germany, Capture Key Towns
November 1944. US Forces head into Northern France, up to the German border. US Ninth and First Armies, along with French Units, encounter German fortifications and trenches. House to house fighting all the way. Mulhausen, Saarburg and Zabern are captured. Germans were using captured russian weapons which are shown. Masses of German prisoners are taken, along with German female pilots and nurses.
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THESE ARE THE MEN : An Anti-German Propaganda Film 1943
Made in the middle of WWII, this propaganda film sought to galvanize the American people against the key leaders of the Nazi Party in Germany. This 1943 film was written and narrated by poet Dylan Thomas. The film used images from German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's film "Triumph of the Will" to discredit the Nazi leadership.
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Japanese Army Newsreel
Shows various Imperial Army conquests, snow sports and Adolph Hitler touring miscellaneous artillery bunkers and guns.
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First Images from Hiroshima
Newsreel also shows American POWs releaed inside Japan, President Truman at his first basball game, General Wainwright, hero of Bataan, returns home, to parade and hero's welcome in Washington DC.
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The American 1st Army - From Aachen to the Roer River
This storytelling gem puts us right on the front line alongside the US 1st Army. The maps are terrific. All you need to know about the "1st" is on this film, made in 1946 after the filmmakers had time to sift through all the combat camera footage.
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Color WWII - Raw Footage, Capture of German U-Boat U-505
On 4 June 1944, United States Navy's USS Guadalcanal captured the German U-Boat U-505, the first time a US Navy vessel had captured an enemy at sea since 1815. This raw color footage shows what happened. The U 505 is presently a museum ship at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Codebooks and other secret documents were captured from the U-505 which assisted Allied codebreaking operations.
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"Men, Before You Invade, Please Watch: THE GATES OF ITALY"
Before the Allies invaded Italy, this Canadian film was made to remind servicemen of the Italian people's heritage and their contributions to the US and Canada. Likely made to encourage soldiers to appreciate (and thus protect), the architecture and cultural treasures of Italy. This image-rich film covers all aspects of Italian life and society before and under Benito Mussolini.
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THE GERMAN ARMAMENT COMPANY AND FAMILY KRUPP - Armament of Politics 1933-1940
Report from the OFFICE OF CHIEF OF COUNSEL FOR WAR CRIMES. Silent footage is mixed with audio from German films that offer rare glimpses into Nazi business dealings with Germany industry. Film was likely used with an accompanying narration or text when presented as evidence. Part 1 shows a map of Germany and the Ruhr. A Krupp made field howitzer is test fired as company officials and military officers look on. Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin and are present at the unveiling of portraits of Hitler and Bismark, and at the distribution of Hitler's book "Mein Kampf." Nazi party officials.
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WWII US Propaganda Film - Know Your Enemy - Japan
An American propaganda film produced on behalf of the U.S. War Department in 1945 as a training film for American soldiers preparing to fight in the Pacific during World War II. Directed by Frank Capra, the hour-long film sought to educate American soldiers about their adversary's history and society, particularly the course up to the Pacific War, and the totalitarian nature of the Japanese state. Today, it's used to show the influence of images and sound over narration, and the portrayal of the Japanese people during World War II. Shows the Bataan Death March in brutal detail.
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THE ROAD TO PARIS
Tells the Story from D-Day to the Liberation of the French Capital.
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NAZI PROPAGANDA FILM "ERB KRANK"
NAZI PROPAGANDA FILM "ERB KRANK" or "Inherited Suffering" - Deals with the Issue of Mental Illness and Makes the Case for Euthanasia
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OUR JOB IN JAPAN
Most every Allied Soldier who entered Japan after the war was required to watch: OUR JOB IN JAPAN
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ITALIAN NEWSREEL - August 1942
Shows the naval-air Battle of the Str. of Sicily, Aug. 11-13, 1942. Animation of route of Brit. convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, It. bombers and fighters take off from Sicilian airfields, It. motor torpedo boats put to sea, It. sub submerges, Ger. and Italian planes dive through intense flak to bomb Brit. convoy, Brit. destroyer is hit and sinks, motor torpedo boats and sub attack, shows list of claimed Brit. losses.
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ITALIAN NEWSREEL 6-15-40
Inside Italian Industry: This newsreel film shows optical workmanship. Caprera: A visit to the grave of Girabaldi. The Italians in Malta: View's of Malta, the island that is like a pistol pointed at Italy's heart. Valletta, capital of the island. Air Raid Protection: An air raid drill in a factory. Villa Umberto: This park has taken on a war aspect. Italian Red Cross tents and first aid stations. Western Front: The victorious German Armies on the point of taking Tournai.
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Army Navy Screen Magazine 1944 - Story of Spies in the US
Part 1, J. Edgar Hoover describes espionage activities and security measures taken against them. Shows Bundist camps in the U.S. German rallies in South America are shown and acts of sabotage are dramatized. Part 2 reenacts the Fritz Duquesne spy case. Dramatizes the presence of German submarines off the Atlantic coast. Shows the saboteurs being brought to trial.
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NUREMBERG - Its Lesson for Today
COMPILATION DOCUMENTARY: Consists of footage from German films documenting Nazi personalities and activities as well as film shot during the trials including testimony and statements from defendants, prosecuting attorneys, judges, and witnesses.
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Here is Germany
Here is Germany was a 1945 propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length propaganda film intended to influence US Servicemen about to occupy the country after WWII.
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GERMAN NEWSREEL - 1943
Part 1, Romanian citizens cheer and embrace young volunteers for the Nazi SS Corps as they board a train for German Part 2, Goring visits an aircraft plant, chats with workers, and observes manufacturing activities. Part 3, German children play in the snow, attend a Christmas party, and receive gifts. Food and gifts are given to workers in a war plant, wounded men in a hospital, sailors aboard a ship, and soldiers at a base in German Part 4, Gen. Rommel inspects barbed wire and concrete defenses and artillery positions at Jutland. Part 5, A German soldier runs through a trench in Russian German transport planes take off and drop supplies to Infantry units.
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TRIALS AT NUREMBERG - Courtroom and Evidence
Anti semitic activities, Trial, defendants speak. Jews being rounded up. Trial again intercut with doc footage of anti-semitic acts. Concentration camps, gold fillings, bodies being carried and dumped into graves, graphic holocaust victims, numbers on children's arms, tattoos on arms, gas chamber, transcripts and stacks of documents, trial again sync sound, defendant's voices and translator. Judges file in. Judges read; Documentary footage of Nazi activities, war booty, Hitler, Hitler youth, riots, documentary footage intercut with trial footage. prison where Nazis were incarcerated, Spandau interiors and exteriors.
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GERMAN NEWSREEL - Covers the Funeral of Assassinated Nazi Official Reinhard Heydrich
Adolf Hitler attends the funeral of one of the most powerful leaders in the Third Reich, Reinhard Heydrich. Shows his body lying in state, the funeral procession, and the burial. Adolf Hitler considered him a possible successor. Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of all European Jews in what is now referred to as the Holocaust. Heydrich was wounded in an assassination attempt in Prague on 27 May 1942. He was hit by an assassin's bomb while he was being driven in his car with convertible top down and died over a week later from complications arising from his injuries. Second part shows German artillery fired in southeastern Russia; German infantry advance. German planes take off and bomb enemy installations.
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SEEDS OF DESTINY - An Anti-German Film Made After WWII
Graphic Images. Hard-hitting US Army Navy Screen Magazine shows the destruction brought on by the German assaults during WWII. During European reconstruction, shows masses of children wander in war-ravaged cities begging, stealing, and scavenging for food. Shows empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czech.; Hitler and von Runstedt; women survivors of the Lidice massacre; packed courtrooms at Nuremburg, Germany and corpses piled up in concentration camps.
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NEWSREEL CLIP - The Japanese Bomb…Alaska? It Happened!
The Japanese Air force bombed US targets on the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Unalaska on June 3, 1942, and occupied three other islands shorty thereafter. Thousands of US Army troops, including actor Charlton Heston, were stationed in the Aleutian Islands to the east for the duration of the war.
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Hitler's Color Home Movies shot by his Mistress Eva Braun
Adolph Hitler's mistress Eva Braun had a lifelong interest in photography and their closest friends called her the Rolleiflex Girl (after the well-known camera model). She did her own darkroom processing and most of the color stills and movies of Hitler are her work. These randomly clipped together scenes feature a Nazi Rally, Eva and her friends at play, and several scenes of Hitler in private moments.
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Pope Pius XII
Raw footage of Pope Pius XII. His leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II and The Holocaust remains the subject of continued historical controversy.
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The Firing Squad Execution of General Dostler - Warning Graphic Images
In the first Allied war trial after the war, German General Anton Dostler was tried in Rome and found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death. This remarkable footage, taken from several angles, shows General Dostler's last minutes before he met his death by firing squad on Dec 1st, 1945. Dostler was accused of carrying out an illegal order: the execution of fifteen men of the U.S. Army. They had posed as Italian civilians in March 1944 after they landed on the Italian coast about 100 kilometers north of La Spezia, Italy. Their mission was to demolish a railroad tunnel between La Spezia and Genoa. Two days later, the group was captured by a party of Italian Fascist soldiers and members of the German army. The captured U.S. soldiers were interrogated and one of the U.S. officers revealed the story of the mission. This information was then sent to Dostler at the 75th German Army Corps. The following day (March 25), Dostler sent a telegram to the 135th Fortress Brigade ordering that the captured soldiers be executed. The 15 Americans were executed on the morning of March 26.
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Live Audio at the Nuremberg Trials
Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Jodl and other German defendants make the opening statements at their war crimes trial at Nuremberg, Germany, in November 1945. Part two is silent - the German defendants greet each other and talk amongst themselves once they reenter the courtroom.
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Captured German Newsreel - Blitzkrieg!
German Newsreel shows how the German Army of Luftwaffe overran France and drove the British from Dunkerque (Dunkirk). Also shows many hundreds of British and French prisoners taken.
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WORLD AT WAR - Doc showing lead up to WWII
World at War - doc showing leadup to WWII. A feature length motion picture presenting step-by-step the events which led up to Pearl Harbor and total war. History, filmed as it happened, shows the massacre of Ethiopia, the invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia, the blitz of Poland, the tragic fall of France. Material was taken from secret government archives. (taking over of Germany, Pearl Harbor…even a Nazi Rally in NYC - Madison Square Garden!).
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Inside the Nazi Party - an Overview of their Second World War
This one hour film (in four parts), tells the story of the Nazi Party's quest for victory on the battlefield and the secret plan to exterminate the Jews in Europe. Contains many rare translated speeches of German leaders, including Adolph Hitler.
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OSS Weapons Film - The Campbell "Boat" Missile
Shows series of tests on the secret WWII waterborne missile "Campbell," remotely controlled by radio and, believe it or not, television. This missile is disguised as fishing boat, harbor utility, or enemy supply boat. Explains detonation, discusses speed and range. Identifies equipment. Lists advantages, explosives used, factors which determine choice of disguise. Illustrations show where equipment is located and how it is camouflaged. Slow motion sequence demonstrates effectiveness of missile on test target. Footage incorporates images from a plane circling the test target, from the missile itself and from surface shots from ships nearby. The monitor is linked to a camera aboard the "boat". Underwater cinematography and narrated excerpts from divers' reports assess damage to target. Includes actual sounds of various engine speeds as heard through hydro phonic detectors during tests.
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OSS Weapons Film - The SPIGOT GUN
Explains design, construction, components, advantages of using the spigot gun, "the saboteur's weapon for both stationary and moving targets." Covers lanyard and time delay detonators. Shows how to mount the gun onto a tree. Also how to aim it, and the use of different elements of the spigot gun.
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Supplying OSS Secret Agents and 350,000 saboteurs was the mission of OPERATION CARPETBAGGER
Film Report on the operations of the 492d Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in supplying air drops to French resistance forces in England during World War II. Describes the packing of guns, explosives, radio sets and breakable material in "H" and "C" containers and panniers; harness and parachute shops at Holme; loading air drop material into bomb racks of B-24's and briefing of plane crews at Harrington airfield.
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Secret OSS Report - THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF JAPAN
Secret briefing film describes Japan's textile and lumber resources. Cotton and silk fabrics are woven. Cotton fields and mulberry plantations are cultivated. Shows bamboo, cypress, and coniferous forests. Trees are felled and transported. How rice is planted, cultivated, and harvested. Tea is picked. Shows surf and deep-sea fishing. Fish is processed on a floating cannery. Iron ore is mined and smelted. Copper bauxite, manganese, and coal are mined. Shows hydro-electric installations. Analyzes Japan's ability to wage modern war.
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AXIS SABOTEURS - NORTH AFRICA 1945
Two captured Arab saboteurs in Tunisia demonstrate how to they used explosives from a confiscated German sabotage kit. Relates brief case histories of the Arabs, who affix explosives to a wrecked German plane and detonate them. Shows the use of a bellows bomb, a magnetic time bomb, and explosive cord. Identifies other contents in the kit, such as plastic explosive and delayed action bombs.
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Secret OSS Report - JAPANESE BEHAVIOR: Japanese Background Study Program
This film features excerpts compiled by OSS to try to provide a basic understanding of the social, economic, political and religious aspects of Japanese culture and how they affect national behavior. Illustrates the old, new, and western influences on Japanese culture. Scenes of gardens, home life, sports, dance, Shinto religious customs, and agriculture. Also emphasizes the order, ritual, and ceremonial discipline that pervade all phases of Japanese life. Shows a dying man, theatrical performances, festivals and sport, events.
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Secret OSS Report: GERMAN AIR POWER April 1943
Special briefing film on the military air strength of Nazi Germany. Uses animated graphs, diagrams and bargraphs, and live footage to explain computations. Discusses production factors and wastage through battle losses, accidents, repair, training. Shows scenes of Eastern Front combat, bombed out buildings in Britain, damaged and destroyed planes, and planes in flight. Adolf Hitler consults with Hermann Goring, Albert Speer, Heinrich Himmler, and Joachim Von Ribbentrop.
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That Justice Be Done - German WAR CRIMINALS
Years before the Nuremberg trials, this film was made, and it compares the Nazi sense of justice, as exemplified in aggressive war and atrocities, with that of the war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg. Excerpt from a speech by Adolf Hitler in which he proclaims his right to rid the world of inferior races; scenes of German atrocity victims and torture devices at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Foreign ministers of the three major powers sign the Moscow declaration in London. Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Prosecutor, gives his speech accepting appointment. Produced by the OSS.
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