Newsreel Movies

A short wartime propaganda film documenting the initial progress of the AIF 6th Division during the Western Desert Campaign of WWII. The film records...

Newsreel coverage of the Anschluß in 1938 and it's associated global reaction.

This short film focuses on the USS Franklin, an aircraft carrier that in March 1945 suffered heavy bombing damages and a massive toll on servicemen...

People give their opinion to the report on the unpopular Dry Law.

A newsreel depicting the funeral of Burmese independence activist U Htun Shein.

President Harding and his wife paying tribute to a group of Indians (Fragment of a longer piece)

Topical Budget 545-2. Newsreel of the 1920s aerial stuntwoman and barnstormer, Sara “Babe” Kalishek. We see her on the ground at first,...

The centrepiece of this March of Time film is the dramatised sequence showing the FBI infiltration of a group of American Nazis, whose espionage and...

A newsreel documenting King George VI's inspection of Australian troops stationed in England, alongside scenes of their military training and...

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

A story about short sighted cats being given glasses.

This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor..

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the...

Informative film discussing the development of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Several prohibition agents display cans and bottles of seized liquor for the camera. They are then shown dumping the goods at a junk yard.

Communicating simultaneously to all 53 of the FBI’s field offices from his headquarters in the Department of Justice, this issue puts J. Edgar...

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor.

G.W. Wickersham, head of Commission, sums up it's findings for Metrotone.

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

In an on-camera interview, Ohio working girl Mary Clowes explains that she is offering her hand in marriage to whoever can provide $10,000 to support...