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War History Films - Military Video, American History Newsreel & more.
Find movies and videos here on a range of historical subjects beyond the military...
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Universal NEWSREEL: World Pays Tribute to CHURCHILL
Upon his death in 1965, this Universal Newsreel tells the story of Winston Churchill. featuring Winston Churchill biography, naval battle scenes, cities on fire, Churchill and FDR on deck of ship, with Eisenhower, crossing the Rhine, parade in Paris after liberation of France, meeting with the queen, in wheelchair. Story 2 "Death from the Sky" airplane tanker crashes and kills 30 in Witchata, Story 3 "Ship Ahoy"- boat show in New York.
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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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RUSSIAN PEOPLE - 1945
US Film shows the courage and determination of the Russian people to beat back the German offensive.
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THE AIR FORCE STORY - Chapter 1 - The Beginning
From civil war balloons to gliders, from the Wright Brothers to World War One - this is the first chapter of the story of the US Army Air Corps which later became the US Air Force. Includes Billy Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, the Lafayette Escadrille, WWI dogfights.
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Building HOOVER Dam
US Army Corps of Engineers build the Hoover Dam - Part two of a narrated film.
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Newsreel - Farmer plays TUNES WITH HIS HANDS!
Newsreel - Chicago: Exclusive sound pictures of Cecil H. Dill, of Traverse Coty, Michigan, an aspiring radio artist demonstrating his ability to render popular melodies by pressing his hands together. Dill modestly tells how he discovered his unusual talent. Plays Yankee Doodle Dandy!
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Newsreel - ROOSEVELT Inauguration
Newsreel - Airplane takes off with film of FDR Inauguration, lands in New York City, views of the inaugural parade. The First Sound Pictures Ever Shown of a Presidential Inauguration. The Brilliant Ceremonies marking The Induction of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd President of the United States. Striking close-up views of President-elect Roosevelt's arrival at the White House to take President Hoover to the Capitol for the Inaugural ceremony, and the historic ride of the celebrated pair down Pennsylvania Avenue, with a Congressional escort, as cheering thousands, massed on the sidewalks, hail the event. . . . Also, interesting scenes are shown of the record-breaking method by which these Universal Newspaper Newsreel sound pictures of the Inauguration were rushed from Washington to the screen via the country's fastest air transport, to establish an all-time record for newsreel service.
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Newsreel - End of PROHIBITION
Newsreel - New York, NY: The Happy Warrior expresses his pleasure at the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as huge shipments of gin are made with the approval of the Federal Government for the first time in thirteen years.
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Modern History - Franklin ROOSEVELT - 6 Fireside Chats
Some of FDR's best "Fireside Chats"... Fireside Chat 2. Outlining the New Deal Program. Sunday, May 7, 1933 Fireside Chat 4. On the Currency Situation. Sunday, October 22, 1933 Fireside Chat 5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress. Thursday, June 28, 1934 Fireside Chat 6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Security. Sunday, September 30, 1934 Fireside Chat 7. On the Works Relief Program. Sunday, April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat 12. On Economic Conditions. Thursday, April 14, 1938
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Site Promo Clip - Valkyrie
The Tom Cruise movie "Valkyrie" dramatizes the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler. This is a real German newsreel made immediately after the attack to reassure the public that "all is well". Note Hitler's right arm.
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