Kosovo: The Black Hole of Europe

Point du Jour International

Is there a light at the end of the Balkan conflict’s long, dark tunnel? Or does Kosovo represent an endgame for the hatred between ethnic Serbians and Albanians? This program searches for answers as it travels through the bleak, war-torn region, presenting the expertise of politicians, activists, peacekeepers, and ordinary citizens. With animated maps that clarify focal points in the struggle over Kosovo, the film sheds light on regional history, the role of UNMIK, and the extreme poverty afflicting half of the population. On-the-ground perspective comes from beleaguered civilians, UN Special Envoy Albert Rohan, Kosovo PM Agim Ceku, KFOR North Commander Gen. Marc Duquesne, and many others.

Congress Reacts to U.S. Air Strikes against Libya ca. 1986

The WPA Film Library

In 1986 President Ronald Reagan ordered air strikes against military targets within Libya after American intelligence officers discovered that Libyan agents had planted a bomb in a West Berlin nightclub that killed one American soldier and injured 50 others. The move was popular within Congress and the American people, but elicited worldwide criticism. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

The WPA Film Library: Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Arrest Manuel Noriega ca. 1989

The WPA Film Library

Despite a history of providing valuable information regarding Fidel Castro to U.S. intelligence agencies, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's extensive drug-trafficking and human-rights violations led President George H. W. Bush to suspend all aid to Panama. In 1990 agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) arrested Noreiga a month after the U.S. invasion of Panama.

The WPA Film Library: Newsreel Highlighting the History of Pancho Villa ca. 1916

The WPA Film Library

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910, when opposition to dictator Porfirio Diaz's regime coalesced into armed revolt. Armies led by Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and Francisco I. Madero forced Diaz from power and installed Madero as president. After becoming president, Madero turned against his former comrades, executing and imprisoning supporters of Villa and Zapata. Following Madero's assassination by General Victoriano Huerta in 1913, Villa and Zapata again battled the government, this time alongside Venustiano Carranza, who wished to reinstate a constitutional democracy in Mexico. Facing enemies from all sides and suffering a U.S. blockade of ports, Huerta resigned on July 8, 1914. Carranza and his supporter, known as the constitutionalists, reached Mexico City first, brokered a deal with Mexico's largest union, and gained control of the government. With the backing of the United States, Carranza's army defeated Villa and Zapata, both of who had continued to fight because they did not recognize the legitimacy of Carranza's government. As this newsreel shows, Villa even led a raid into the United States in retaliation for U.S. recognition of the Carranza government. In response to the raid, the United States sent 6,000 men, led by Brigadier General John "Black Jack" Pershing into Mexico to apprehend Villa. After an unsuccessful 10-month, 300-mile pursuit, the United States recalled Pershing and his troops.

Eddie Rickenbacker Prepares for Flight ca. 1917

The WPA Film Library

A champion racecar driver before he joined the U.S. army, Eddie Rickenbacker achieved fame as an acrobatic ace fighter pilot in World War I. Rickenbacker scored 26 combat victories, shooting down 22 planes and 4 observation balloons, before the war ended in 1918. Following the war Rickenbacker started the first profitable commercial airline, Eastern Air Lines. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Mohandas Gandhi Speaks Before a Crowd ca. 1922

British Pathe

In 1922 Mohandas Gandhi was arrested by Great Britain and sentenced to six years in prison for his seditious nonviolent actions in India. By the time of his conviction, Gandhi had become a national hero in South Africa and India, drawing huge crowds to hear him speak wherever he traveled. The British released Gandhi from prison in 1924, following surgery for appendicitis. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

U.S. Marines Leave for Nicaragua to Fight Rebels ca. 1928

British Pathe

In 1926 a U.S.-backed Conservative government led by Adolfo Diaz assumed power in Nicaragua after civil war between the Liberals and Conservatives broke apart earlier Nicaraguan governments. Frustrated by U.S. interference, Liberal leader Bautista Sacasa, with Mexico's aid, established an alternate Liberal government in Nicaragua. In response, President Calvin Coolidge authorized the sale of arms to the Conservative government and sent in 2,000 marines to quell the rebellion. A U.S.-supervised election took place in 1928, and Sacasa's general, Jose Maria Moncada was elected president. However, forces led by another Liberal rebel, Augusto Cesar Sandino, refused to recognize the election and continued the guerilla rebellion against U.S. troops until their withdrawal in 1933. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Sports Shoe Wars: Battle of the Giants in China

Deutsche Welle

Three athletic footwear companies-Nike, adidas, and homegrown upstart Li Ning-have faced off in a high-stakes battle for China's gigantic market. This program examines adidas' rising prominence in the country, an ascension due in no small part to its well-publicized Olympic Games sponsorship. Li Ning's efforts to retain its precarious hold on the urban market are also studied. Li Ning CFO Tan Wee Seng and adidas Group CEO Herbert Hainer take turns outlining their marketing strategies and goals, while Chinese retailers and customers describe how the war is shaping up on the street. The result is a valuable case study for courses focusing on global marketing and international business. (31 minutes)

Total War: The War Takes Its Toll on Day-to-Day Life

Peter Batty Productions

As the strain of total war increased on both sides, the Union and Confederacy each bitterly fought on in an effort to break the other's will. Topics in this program range from draft riots in the North and the Union's recruitment of African-Americans, to the hardships imposed on the South by the ongoing coastal blockade and Sherman's March to the Sea, to the wartime leadership of Lincoln and Davis, to the battles that shaped the beginning of the end of the Civil War: Chickamauga, Second Chattanooga, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Mobile Bay. Commentary by Eric Foner, Shelby Foote, James Robertson, Henry Steele Commager, and William Still is featured. A part of the series The Divided Union: The Story of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (5 Parts) (52 minutes)

United News, Release 4 (1942): U.S. Rushes New Bases in Pacific

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Equipment and supplies are unloaded. 2. Navy nurses model summer uniforms; women join the WAC; WAC Colonel Oveta C. Hobby; women dispatch carriers ride motorcycles. 3. A track meet at Madison Square Garden. 4. How V-Mail is handled. 5. A Japanese cruiser burns during a naval fight near Midway; Admiral Nimitz presents decorations; bombers are manufactured; midshipmen graduate and parade at Annapolis. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 5 (1942): U.S. Reveals Armed Might for Churchill

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at the White House and then view a mass parachute drop. 2. The Red Cross provides food as refugee children debark in New York City. 3. Seven brothers and their father (all Navy men) pose on a cruiser. 4. Air Force gunners assemble and disassemble guns; simulated aerial combat. 5. President Roosevelt and his cabinet greet King Peter of Yugoslavia at the White House; Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana meet in Canada. 6. Tanks roll off an assembly line, are loaded on trains and planes, and advance in combat. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 7 (1942): Martyred Czech Village Lives Again in U.S.

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. A town in Illinois is officially renamed Lidice. 2. The wreckage of Japanese submarines is raised from Australian harbor. 3. Timber is felled in Canada. 4. Cowboys ride at a California rodeo. 5. Flashbacks show scenes of five years of war in China. 6. Jeeps roll from an assembly line. 7. Generals Doolittle and Arnold decorate fliers; a practice bombing mission. (10 minutes)

Episode 1: The Cause (1861) (The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns)

Ken Burns

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this program dramatically evokes the causes of the war. Here are the burning questions of union and states' rights, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides. Along the way the war's major figures are introduced: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and a host of lesser-known but equally vivid characters. The episode comes to a climax with the disastrous Union defeat at Manassas, where both sides learned it would be a very long war. Distributed by PBS Distribution. A part of the series The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns. (100 minutes)

Episode 5: The Universe of Battle (1863) (The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns)

Ken Burns

This program opens with an account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg. For three days, 150,000 men fight to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside-an action that culminates in Pickett's ill-fated charge. This extended episode then goes on to chronicle the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of African-American troops, and the battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The program closes with the dedication of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg, where Lincoln struggles to put into words what is happening to his people. Distributed by PBS Distribution. A part of the series The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns. (96 minutes)

Episode 6: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864) (The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns)

Ken Burns

This program begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then goes on to chart the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other. So intense was the fighting that in one 30-day period, their armies lost more men than both sides had lost in three years of war. With Grant and Lee finally deadlocked at Petersburg, this episode shifts focus to follow General Sherman's Atlanta campaign. As the horrendous casualty lists increased, Lincoln's chances for reelection began to dim-and with them the possibility of Union victory. Distributed by PBS Distribution. A part of the series The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns. (70 minutes)

Episode 8: War Is All Hell (1865) (The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns)

Ken Burns

This program begins with William T. Sherman's brilliant March to the Sea, which brought the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spelled the end of the Confederacy. It continues with Lincoln's second inauguration, the fall of Petersburg and then Richmond to Grant's army, and the westward flight of Lee's tattered Army of Northern Virginia to a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox Court House, where the dramatic and deeply moving surrender of Lee to Grant would take place. The episode ends in Washington, where John Wilkes Booth dreamed of vengeance for the South. Distributed by PBS Distribution. A part of the series The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns. (69 minutes)

Lewis and Clark

National Geographic

In its time, their journey equaled a voyage to the moon. It took place before the American west became known as “the frontier,” when Europeans understood little about what lay within the continent. Courageous in spirit and unyielding in their dedication to the mission, Meriweather Lewis and William Clark led 31 people from the mouth of the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and back. In doing so they engendered a riveting tale of adventure and exploration, which, more than 200 years after the launch of the expedition, serves as a rich departure point for the study of post-Revolution American history. A National Geographic Production. (42 minutes)

Universal Newsreels: Air Army Invades Germany (04/05/1945)

Universal Newsreel

This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. (1) When the entire Rhine front explodes into action, the First Allied Airborne Army takes flight for the Westphalian plains. From an observation post, General Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill watch the sky trains roar by overhead. The drop area reached, thousands of chutes float to the ground from C-46 carriers, while giant C-47 tow planes release their gliders. This airborne invasion is hailed as one of the most successful in the history of warfare. (2) With tanks leading the way, units of General Patton's 3rd Army advance on Coblenz. Tom Priestley, Universal cameraman, covers the entire action. (3) Secretly built during Nazi occupation, a gigantic six-motor French flying boat is now unveiled. It takes off and flies as gracefully as anything in the air. (4) In a stirring speech, General Eisenhower awards the Presidential Citation to the famous 101st Airborne Division for its heroic defense of Bastogne. Steel-helmeted Marlene Dietrich joins the entire reviewing party in saluting the 101st. Universal Studios. (7 minutes)

Universal Newsreels: U-Boat Menace Ended (05/17/1945)

Universal Newsreel

This Universal newsreel focuses on five topics, as follows. (1) With the downfall of Germany, U-boats rise to the surface and proceed to surrender to Allied naval authorities. (2) In Berlin, Air Marshal Tedder, General Spaatz, Marshal Zhukoff and others receive the surrender of General Keitel, Admiral Friedberg, and General Stumpf, which commits Nazi Germany to Allied control and ceases hostilities. (3) Yanks entering the salt mines at Merkers, Germany, are startled to find 100 tons of gold bullion, jewels, silver currency, and priceless paintings--the cached loot of the Nazis. (4) Eminent people, long held in Nazi prison camps, are found at a Villa in the Alps. (5) Aircraft factories near Nagasaki are bombed by B-29s from Guam. From Saipan, a fleet of B-29s pierce clouds of flak over Tokyo to plant tons of bombs on the Japanese capital city. Universal Studios. (7 minutes)

Universal Newsreels: Castro Triumphs -- Havana Crowds Hail Success of Revolt (01/05/1959)

Universal Newsreel

This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban revolution. Key moments in Castro's Communist revolution are highlighted: his triumphant emergence after two years of guerilla warfare, the resignation and flight of dictator Fulgencio Batista, the rebels' entrance into Havana, and a victory celebration--at first joyful, and then violent. Universal Studios. (2 minutes)

Universal Newsreels: As World Watched -- Spaceman Hailed after U.S. Triumph (05/08/1961)

Universal Newsreel

This Universal newsreel focuses on Alan Shepard, space pioneer. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard--the first American in space--receives a medal from President Kennedy at the White House and takes part in a parade up Pennsylvania Avenue. Universal Studios. (2 minutes)

Universal Newsreels: The Red Threat -- President Orders Cuban Blockade (10/22/1962)

Universal Newsreel

This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy speaks to the nation on America's proposed response to the construction of offensive nuclear missile sites in Cuba. "To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated." Universal Studios. (3 minutes)

Universal Newsreels: Peace March -- Thousands Oppose Vietnam War (04/18/1967)

Universal Newsreel

This Universal newsreel focuses on three demonstrations against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. A protest in New York City is led by Martin Luther King, Jr., to the UN building. Another march in downtown San Francisco is sponsored by a loose coalition of left-wing anti-war groups. A third protest, in Rome near the U.S. embassy, ends in violence. Universal Studios. (3 minutes)

Prelinger Archives: America Goes Over (Part III) (1918)

Prelinger Archives

This Prelinger Archives film (part 3 of 5) illustrates World War I on the Western Front. The story of U.S. involvement in the war picks up with the Second Battle of the Marne and ends with the St. Mihiel Offensive. Scenes spotlight frontline action--troops advancing, artillery firing, airplanes and tanks on the move, an observation balloon being shot down--and day-to-day life in the rear. Of special note: a shot of John J. Pershing. U.S. Army Signal Corps. (16 minutes)

Prelinger Archives: Japanese Relocation (c. 1943)

Prelinger Archives

"Following the outbreak of the present war, it became necessary to transfer several thousand Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to points in the American Interior." This Prelinger Archives film, an explanation of the World War II internment of people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, "is an historical record of the operation, as carried out by the United States Army and the War Relocation Authority." Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the W.R.A. during the initial period of the transfer, narrates. U.S. Office of War Information. (9 minutes)

Prelinger Archives: The Civil War (1954)

Prelinger Archives

This Prelinger Archives film is a 1954 dramatization of important battles and military events of the Civil War, using Hollywood-style on-location cinematography as well as reenactments which, although not full-scale battle replications, still effectively convey a sense of the conflict. With the help of eloquent narration, viewers are given an understanding of the social, economic, and geographical factors that led to, prolonged, and eventually ended the war. Animated map graphics and intermittent color photography are used. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. (15 minutes)

Prelinger Archives: On Guard! The Story of SAGE (c. 1956)

Prelinger Archives

This Prelinger Archives film introduces SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), a computerized early warning system designed to guard against enemy aircraft. State-of-the-art in 1956, the system was composed of room-sized computers and giant "Displayscopes." The film represents an effort to describe the system without alienating a technologically unsophisticated public. "You are listening to the heartbeat of the SAGE computer," says the narrator. "Every instrument in this room is constantly monitoring, testing, pulse-taking, controlling." With images of children playing and a little girl sleeping, the film asks, "What better reason for an electronic defense?" and tells us that "the future of America is secure." Glimpses of huge mainframes maintained by well-tailored men and women are a far cry from the casual sensibility we associate with Microsoft and Silicon Valley. Produced by the IBM Corporation, Military Products Division. (12 minutes)

The Good Soldier

Journeyman Pictures

“War is about one thing only: it’s about killing. You either learn to kill somebody else or you get killed or wounded yourself.” This film examines how soldiers grapple simultaneously with their duty and their own humanity as it tracks the perilous psychological journeys of four decorated combat veterans of World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War. A combination of frank interviews and battlefield footage, The Good Soldier addresses the initial reluctance to kill, the act of killing from a distance and hand-to-hand, incidents of combat zone atrocities, the experience of getting wounded, mixed feelings of relief and alienation upon returning stateside, post-tour substance abuse and mental trauma, efforts at closure, and involvement with veterans-for-peace movements. A sobering statement both about and against war. Contains graphic military-related violence and instances of harsh language. (54 minutes)

Global Conflict

Classroom Video

This program—a valuable tool for introducing the concepts of energy security, antiterrorism, and managing change at the global level—identifies the roots of violent conflict by way of specific examples. Through discussion of territorial clashes (India/Pakistan, Israel/PLO), genocides (Rwanda, Srebrenica), terrorism (al Qaeda, IRA, ETA), and violence such as that found in Sudan—arguably a combination of all three preceding types—Global Conflict makes the case that an understanding of the sources of conflict, combined with the free exchange of information internationally, is the key to reducing strife at all levels. Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. A part of the series Geography of Conflict. (23 minutes)

The Battle of Hastings: 1066

Pathe Media

The English language, taste and sensibility, and of course government and law changed drastically when the Norman William the Conqueror beat King Harold of Wessex at the Battle of Hastings. This program explains the background of English history, the Viking role in England and in Normandy (where the conquering Vikings became more French than the French they conquered), as well as the battle of Hastings itself, which in many ways stands as the beginning of modern England. (36 minutes)English

Berlin: A City in Search of Itself

Electric Sky

The seat of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic, Berlin was powerfully shaped by the political aftershocks of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. As the capital of Europe's wealthiest and most populous nation wrestles with its past in pursuit of its future, this program searches for the essence of modern Berlin. Markus Wolf, the former head of East German foreign intelligence; ice skating champion Katarina Witt; and other contemporary figures provide insights into the city's development as a major hub in a unified Europe. (53 minutes)

Genocide: From Biblical Times Through the Ages

Media Entertainment

Although the term "genocide" was coined by humanitarian Rafael Lemkin in reference to the Turkish expulsion and slaughter of Armenians in the early 20th century, the phenomenon is as old as civilization. In this program, a variety of experts analyze biblical accounts and some of the earliest documented examples of genocide, as in the Athenian siege of Milos in 416 BC, to explore the psychology that motivates such violence. This grim survey of history looks at the extermination of Tasmanians, Native Americans, Namibia’s Herero tribe, and the Armenians. Guests include Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, William Schulz, then executive director of Amnesty International USA;and David Scheffer, then U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes. Viewer discretion is advised. (57 minutes)

The Battle of the Marne

Pathe Media

The Battle of the Marne is the demarcation between the ancient and the modern world, between wars fought with white gloves and those fought by killing machines. This program examines the roots of the First World War: France's humiliating loss of Alsace and Lorraine in 1870; in the growing nationalisms, the pan-Germanism promoted by the Kaiser and the pan-Slavism by Tsar Nicholas; the jealousy and arrogance of the Germans, and their growing industrial power; the decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the intertwining ententes and alliances, the words of honor given that would send millions to their deaths. The program documents the struggles, the forced marches, the uneven confrontation between well-trained soldiers and patriotic farmers; portrays the leaders on both sides; and details the battle of the Marne-a vicious, unbelievably bloody battle that in earlier times would have signaled the end of a war. This one would last four more years, cost nine million lives, and solve nothing. (30 minutes)English

Bioterror: The Invisible Threat

Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

In the arsenal of terrorism, biological weapons, particularly anthrax, have many compelling characteristics. In this program, leading experts from both the U.S. and the former Soviet Union provide chilling commentary on why bioterrorism is likely to become a global threat, citing recent incidents as well as the once-classified results of a 1966 joint U.S. Army/CIA bio-weapon experiment conducted in the New York City subway. Dramatizations of simulated terrorist attacks and laboratory techniques bring home the relative ease of manufacture and extreme lethality of these weapons. (49 minutes)

Portraits and Snapshots

San Mateo County Community College District

Since the Civil War, portrait and snapshot photography have provided a visual history of life-and transformed society. This program explores how professional and amateur photographers capture the essence of people while considering the intensely personal nature of portraits and snapshots, their use as means of self-exploration and cultural narrative, and concerns involving their commodification and decontextualization. Commentary is provided by photographers Michael Collopy, Dale Kistemaker, Larry Sultan, Catherine Wagner, Richard Barnes, and Ed Kashi. (27 minutes)

The Tide Turns

QUARTET INTERNATIONAL INC.

The shared suffering has created a new comradeship and determination-"London can take it!" Americans are told. Nevertheless, one military disaster follows another as Rommel triumphs in North Africa. Britain suffers acute shortages of food, as three merchant ships on average are sunk every day. Food rationing is introduced, and the U.S. begins its Lend-Lease program. Women contribute as never before, working in factories, in the women's branches of the armed forces, and in civil defense. Gradually, thanks to the intervention of the United States and the German debacle on the Russian front, the tide begins to turn in the West. (58 minutes, b&w)

The Final Chapter

QUARTET INTERNATIONAL INC.

Hitler suffers crushing defeat in Russia, though at enormous cost to the Soviets. Three million fighting men (and some women) are stationed in the U.K., poised to invade Europe. D-Day is the 6th of June, and within days of the first landing, over 300,000 Allied soldiers are fighting on French soil. The French resistance fights street battles in Paris as the Allies approach. V-1 and V-2 bombs pose a new threat to London, but by April, Berlin is surrounded and Hitler is said to commit suicide. Germany is defeated, but the war against Japan will continue for a further three months. (58 minutes, b&w)

In the Name of Revolution: Gun-Barrel Politics

3BM Television

For modern revolutionaries the world over, Cuba's Che Guevara literally wrote the book. This program examines radical political movements in Germany, Italy, Peru, and Colombia to see how Che's theories have fared in practice. Former gunman Peter Jurgen Boock, of the Baader-Meinhof Gang; former gunman Valerio Morucci, of the Red Brigades; a former Shining Path insurgent; and Raul Reyes, second-in-command of FARC, talk about their roles in their factions' ideological wars. Giovanni Moro, son of the murdered Italian statesman Aldo Moro; Peruvian Truth Commission member Carlos Tapia, former leader of the United Left Front; and Peru's Minister of Justice Fernando Olivera Vega provide additional insights. (47 minutes)

In the Name of God: Holy Word, Holy War

3BM Television

By detailing key incidents ranging from the Dawson's Field hijackings to the Luxor massacre, this program charts the ever-widening holy war that is pitting Islamists against Zionists and the Arab world against the West. The Kach Party's Noam Federman; Bassam abu Sharif, founder of the Palestine Democratic Party; Abdel Aziz Rantisi and Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, operational and spiritual leaders of Hamas; Sheikh Jamal Khatab and Sheikh Fadlallah, spiritual leaders of Lebanese al Qaeda and Hezbollah; former Jewish Underground leader Yehuda Etzion; and former PFLP hijacker Leila Khaled are featured, as are former prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and Conor Gearty, expert in human rights law. (47 minutes)

The Road to War: American Decision-Making During the Gulf Crisis

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

This unprecedented historical retrospective provides an inside look at how the U.S. responded to the Gulf crisis, how America’s leaders evaluated data and options, how decisions were made and policies implemented, and how the crisis was managed on a day-to-day basis—in short, the steps that led to war and thence to the cease-fire. The participants include James Baker, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and most of the other members of President Bush’s "war cabinet" as well as the sub-cabinet officials who played central roles in the political, diplomatic, and military aspects of the war. We know of no comparable instance in which so many top-level officials have come together to discuss openly an event of such historic proportions. What this program presents is the firsthand recollections, very shortly after the events took place, of the decision-makers responsible for taking the U.S. into and out of war. Produced under the auspices of the American Enterprise Institute.

Korean Americans

Flying Cloud Productions

This program examines a major piece of the new American mosaic—a group that is seeking to retain its traditional cultural values while adjusting to life in the U.S. Korean Americans have come into frequent and violent conflict with inner-city African Americans, and have sought, through their own ethnic civic organizations, to overcome the rejection of the community around them. (50 minutes)

Islam and War

C.T.V.C.

Seen as the spiritual head of the Hezbollah, Sayed Fadlallah-a leading political figure in the Lebanese Islamic Movement-gives his views of Jihad or Holy War, its rules, its origins, and the role of terror in such a war. The program also examines how Muslim thinkers see the role of war and violence in the contemporary world, and why some feel the need to wage a Holy War. (30 minutes)

Children of the Holocaust

Granada Media

About one-third of adult European Jews survived the Nazis' Final Solution, but only seven percent of children. This program tells the stories of four people who, as children, survived the Holocaust: Yehuda Bacon, one of 28 survivors out of a group of 15,000 Czech children sent to Theresienstadt and now an artist living in Israel, who describes the incredible twists of fate that kept him alive; Sophie Reichman, hidden by a non-Jewish family, who describes how she was unable to say good-bye to her mother; Janek Webber, one of only 200 Polish children to survive, who was smuggled out of the Cracow ghetto in his father's suitcase; Shmuel Sheler, whose mother bribed a peasant woman to take the 12-year-old boy back to Budapest after his family was driven out of the city and who survived by scavenging in the streets. Had Anne Frank survived, what might her story have been? (51 minutes)

Wafa Idriss: The First Female Palestinian Suicide Bomber

Tele Images

Wafa Idriss was both a nurse with the Red Crescent and an anti-Israeli occupation activist. What motivated the 28-year-old to make her mark on history not as a healer, but as a martyr and a murderer? This program uses her story as a window into the simmering standoff that exists in the embattled West Bank. Through interviews, Wafa’s mother and others who knew her express their surprise and dismay at her actions, while a Jewish victim’s widow and al Fatah’s Marwan Barghouti add their own particular perspectives. Footage of attacks and reprisals—and of Dareen abu Aisheh, inspired to become the second female Palestinian suicide bomber—underscores the desperation felt by many Palestinians. Viewer discretion is advised. (28 minutes)

Reporting on Terrorism: The News Media and Public Health-A Fred Friendly Seminar

Fred Friendly Seminars

How should the news media prepare for and cope with a potential bioterrorist attack? In this Fred Friendly Seminar, Professor Michael Dorf of the Columbia University School of Law and 12 panelists role-play a hypothetical scenario that begins in a city hospital where a spike in a flu-like illness causes the ER staff to confront a chilling possibility: that it is not the flu at all, but something far worse. What should the ER do with the overflow of patients? Send them home? What if they are contagious? When does bioterrorism become a possible cause? When should the health department be contacted? When will the public find out, and what will their reaction be? What is the job of the journalists covering this story? Should they report the story when the health department is uncertain of the diagnosis but rumors are flying and the public is clamoring for information? A lively panel wrestles with these and a host of other dilemmas. Panelists include Douglas Clifton, editor of The Plain Dealer (Cleveland); Jerome Hauer, former acting assistant secretary for public health emergency preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services; Joseph Henderson, associate director of terrorism preparedness at the CDC; Seattle Chief of Police R. Gil Kerlikowske; Paula Madison, president and general manager of KNBC-TV, in L.A.; Boston Mayor Thomas Menino; Lewis Nelson, M.D., of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Bellevue Hospital; Frank Sesno, former Washington bureau chief of CNN; and Kathleen Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Division of Public Health at the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Additional resources are located online at www.fredfriendly.org. (58 minutes)

Conflict Resolution

ClickView Pty Limited

Peaceful solutions to conflict are wonderful, in theory, but how do they work in the real world? Using actual case studies, this program examines conflict and conflict resolution on four different levels: global, community, workplace, and school. Applying a novel teaching approach, it features a pair of news desk anchors and four different reporters, each covering a specific conflict scenario. Topics include diplomacy, peaceful protest, and mediation. (28 minutes)

Thieves of Time: Who Owns the Past?

KAET-TV, Arizona State University

This program, introduced by author Tony Hillerman, studies Native American burial grounds over five centuries of cultural, scientific, and legal change. The Native American Graves Repatriation Act, covering the ownership and study of human remains and sacred objects, is given special emphasis. Interviews with Martin Sullivan, director of the Heard Museum, in Phoenix; Paul Bender, former dean of The College of Law at Arizona State University; Richard Rabinowitz, Harvard University historian; and Walter Echo-Hawk, of the Native American Rights Fund, are featured. (28 minutes)

Francis Fukuyama: The End of History?

Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama is a former neoconservative who argued for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein-then changed his mind before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. What caused his reversal? If the war had gone differently, would he have revised his opinion again? What strategies does he envision for promoting global democracy in the future? Fukuyama addresses those and other questions in this detailed, one-on-one interview. Topics include foreign policy differences between the U.S. and the European Union, China's unusual ability to create modern capitalism without representative democracy, and Fukuyama's concept of a "global NATO." (29 minutes)

George McGovern Criticizes Richard Nixon on the War in Vietnam ca. 1972

The WPA Film Library

In 1972 as the war in Vietnam wore on, treaty talks in Paris were stalled and the North Vietnamese continued to launch offensives. President Nixon responded to these offensives with U.S. air strikes and the mining of Haiphong harbor. Senator George McGovern, a candidate for president and a critic of the war, denounced Nixon's action. The following year Congress passed the War Powers Act, which greatly curbs the powers of the Executive to wage war. The War Powers Act has not been recognized by any president. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

The WPA Film Library: Cold War Fuels Interest in the Hydrogen Bomb ca. 1950

The WPA Film Library

After the close of World War II, the U.S.S.R. and the United States entered into the cold war, wherein the two nations competed for world influence. The United States had already developed and used the atom bomb in 1945 against Japan; in 1949, the U.S.S.R. detonated their own atom bomb. This marked the start of the arms race between the two nations. The United States, now no longer the only country with nuclear weapons, began the development of the hydrogen bomb. The hydrogen bomb was expected to be 1,000 times more powerful than the atom bomb. Support of the hydrogen bomb became political, with those who opposed it labeled un-American or disloyal to the United States. In 1952 the United States tested a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific. By 1953 the Soviets had their own, and the arms race continued.

U.S. Military Unveils New Radar Plane ca. 1956

British Pathe

During the cold war, the U.S. military undertook a sustained research and development project to create new weapons and technologies that could prevent a surprise attack by the Soviet Union. One outgrowth of this project was the increasing sophistication of radar. In the mid-1950s, jets equipped with high-tech radar equipment began patrolling U.S. and European airspace. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

U.S. Factory Builds Jets and Automobiles During 1950s ca. 1953

British Pathe

Following World War II, the U.S. government continued its many contracts with large companies that built its weapons, aircraft, and vehicles. Factories that could build both commercial automobiles and military jets were part of what President Dwight Eisenhower later called the "military-industrial complex", and were promoted by military leaders as vital in the continuing cold war with the Soviet Union. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

The WPA Film Library: Veterans Attend Dedication of the Vietnam War Memorial (Part 1) ca. 1982

The WPA Film Library

The dedication of the national Vietnam War Memorial in 1982 drew large crowds of veterans whose lives were still affected by their service. Vietnam veterans, unlike those who returned from World War II or the Korean War, did not receive a large public demonstration of support. This, and the desire of many to heal the rifts in the country between those who supported and opposed the war, helped inspire the construction of the memorial within 10 years after close of the war.

Egypt Repudiates 1936 Treaty with Great Britain ca. 1951

British Pathe

Following the end of World War II, the Suez Canal became the center of a long conflict between Arab nations and the West. In 1951, Egypt declared that it was pulling out of a treaty it had signed with Great Britain that allowed them to maintain troops within the country to protect the canal. Within five years, this conflict simmered into a brief war known as the Suez Crisis. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

The Passenger Ship Queen Elizabeth Docks in England ca. 1945

British Pathe

During World War II two British passenger liners, the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary, were put to military use. These ships, two of the largest ships ever built, ferried troops across the Atlantic at speeds that could outrun German U-boat submarines. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Police Clash with Union Strikers ca. 1920s

The WPA Film Library

Following the end of World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and other groups represented a radical branch of the American labor movement. In strikes across the nation, police officers and private guards employed by large manufacturers clashed with striking union members. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Members of Congress Question Reagan Administration Officials on Civil Defense Plans (Part 1) ca. 1982

The WPA Film Library

In 1982 the Senate held hearing into the Reagan Administration's plans regarding civil defense in the event of a nuclear war. The catalyst for the hearings was an assertion made by T. K. Jones, a member of the Department of Defense, to a Los Angeles Times reporter that the United States could recover from a nuclear attack, thereby calling into question the deterrent of "mutually assured destruction". Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Members of Congress Question Reagan Administration Officials on Civil Defense Plans (Part 2) ca. 1982

The WPA Film Library

Throughout much of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union adhered to a policy that held that the mutually assured destruction of each country in the event of a nuclear war would prove to be the greatest deterrent to the use of atomic weapons. The assertion of officials in the Reagan Administration that nuclear war could in fact be survivable prompted a series of Congressional hearings into the nation's civil defense system. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

The WPA Film Library: B-70 Bomber Performs Test Flight ca. 1964

The WPA Film Library

The U.S. air force deployed manned B-52 bomber planes during World War II to destroy strategic targets. After the war the military shifted away from developing new bombers, instead focusing on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). In 1964 the government tested a long-delayed prototype of B-70 bomber. The plane never went into production, but did influence the development of new passenger planes for commercial aviation.

Japanese Americans Arrive at the Crystal City Internment Camp ca. 1940s

The WPA Film Library

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps administered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the U.S. Department of Justice. The Crystal City facility in Texas was the largest one of these camps, with more than 3,300 residents at its peak in 1945. Although the U.S. government stressed that the detained Japanese Americans were well cared for, thousands of people lost their jobs and their homes, and had to suffer disruption and isolation in their otherwise normal lives. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Allies Sign the Atlantic Charter ca. 1941

British Pathe

In August 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill met in Newfoundland to sign the Atlantic Charter, which delineated the aims for war against Germany. Although the United States was not yet officially involved in World War II, President Roosevelt had declared support for Britain through the Lend-Lease Act. In 1942 more than two dozen additional nations signed the Atlantic Charter. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Allies Attack Guadalcanal ca. 1942

British Pathe

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal, located in the Solomon Islands. The Battle of Guadalcanal, which lasted until February 1943, was a key Allied victory of World War II because it reversed Japan's advancement into the South Pacific. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Charles de Gaulle Arrives in Paris ca. 1944

British Pathe

Nearly three months after D-Day, on August 24, 1944, French tanks under the direction of Major General Jacques Philippe Leclerc rolled into Paris in order to liberate the city from German occupation. Two days later General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, led a victory parade through the city. The success of Operation Overlord - the Allies' codename for the recapture of mainland Europe from the Nazis - marked a major turning point in World War II. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

British People Celebrate VE Day ca. 1945

British Pathe

On May 7, 1945, the German army surrendered at Rheims, France, bringing an end to the European theater of World War II. The ceasefire was to take place on May 8, which then became known as Victory in Europe (VE) Day. VE Day celebrations were particularly festive in Britain, where thousands of people turned out in London to see the royal family and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Members of Parliament Tour Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen at the end of World War II ca. 1945

British Pathe

The world was shocked by the reports sent by the Allies after they liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1945. Conservative British member of Parliament Mavis Tate visited Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen to survey the atrocities firsthand. In a film report that she made for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Tate reproached those people who claimed the Holocaust had been exaggerated, adding that "the reality was indescribably worse".

The WPA Film Library: Hawaiians Celebrate Statehood ca. 1959

The WPA Film Library

On August 21, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act. Hawaii, which had been annexed to the United States in 1898, became the 50th state in the Union.

Stokely Carmichael Addresses a Crowd ca. 1960s

The WPA Film Library

Stokely Carmichael was a major figure in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. He was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was later elected its chairman. Carmichael coined the term "black power" in a 1966 speech in Greenwood, Mississippi. In 1967 he left SNCC and joined the more militant Black Panther Party, but he left the party a few months later. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Refugees Flee East Germany before the Berlin Wall Is Built ca. 1961

The WPA Film Library

After World War II, Germany was split into four sectors. The eastern part, controlled by the Soviet Union, soon fell into economic depression. In order to stop millions of East Germans from fleeing to noncommunist West Germany through the city of Berlin, the Soviet Union ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

U.S. Marines Arrive in the Dominican Republic ca. 1965

The WPA Film Library

In 1962 leftist Juan Bosch was elected president of the Dominican Republic. One year later, he was overthrown and a military junta was installed. Bosch and his supporters soon regrouped and in 1965 attempted to topple that regime. The United States, meanwhile, had sent troops to the Dominican Republic with the official intent to protect the military government from Bosch's revolutionaries. However, President Lyndon B. Johnson made it clear that he intended to prevent the spread of communism in the Caribbean. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Police Clash with Protestors at the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago ca. 1968

The WPA Film Library

During the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago, local police and National Guardsmen brutally clashed with student protestors. Much of the conflict was broadcast live on national television, and overshadowed the convention's nomination of Vice President Hubert Humphrey as the Democratic candidate for president. Political observers argued that the protests, along with an already deeply divided Democratic Party, helped Richard M. Nixon win the presidential election. Copyright The WPA Film Library.

Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude

The University of Memphis

The first major documentary study of Winslow Homer, this program features over 180 images of Homer oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, and illustrations, combined with in-depth commentary from respected art scholars and historians. Viewers will learn about Homer’s childhood, early work as an engraver, frontline Civil War experiences, European sojourns, and eventual renown as the reclusive dean of 19th-century American painting. (2 parts, 55 minutes each)

The Baptist Church

Dennis Wholey Enterprises

In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Baptist churches with the Reverend Wallace Charles Smith, senior minister at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion include the core principles of individual soul liberty, congregant equality, and church autonomy; the right of every Baptist to interpret the Bible in his or her own way; the impetus of post-Civil War racism in the forming of African-American Baptist denominations; and the debate on whether the Baptist Church predates Catholicism or is a product of the Protestant Reformation. In addition, Shiloh Deacon James H. Grigsby III tours viewers through the church. (27 minutes)

The Ghosts of My Lai

Java Films

On March 16, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, American soldiers killed 504 unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. After a brief overview of the war and the home front backlash against it, this program seeks to understand the massacre and its aftermath through the interwoven narratives of three U.S. soldiers—radioman Fred Widmer, helicopter crewman Larry Colburn, and photographer Ron Haeberle—who were present on that horrific day. The first participated in the slaughter, the second intervened in it, and the third revealed it to the world. In a Pittsburgh classroom and in present-day My Lai, these deeply scarred veterans tell their unforgettable stories with candor, grief, and insight. Viewer discretion is advised. (53 minutes)

Conclusion at Appomattox: The War Ends, but Not Its Impact

Peter Batty Productions

In 1865, the laying down of arms was just the beginning of the long battle for equal rights facing African-Americans. After documenting the final months of the War Between the States-Lincoln's second inauguration, Sherman's march through the Carolinas, the Siege of Petersburg, the destruction of Richmond, General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and Lincoln's assassination-this program considers the outcome of the war and its cost, Reconstruction, the century of racism and segregation following the war, and the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr., as the voice of the civil rights movement. Commentary by Eric Foner, Shelby Foote, and James McPherson is featured. A part of the series The Divided Union: The Story of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (5 Parts) (52 minutes)

Pakistan on the Brink

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Pakistan's greatest enemy is no longer India but rather the internal menace of the Taliban, who have reinvented themselves in a bid to take over the country. This program examines the conflict ravaging one of America's key allies in the war on terror. Traveling to Peshawar, an urban gateway to Pakistan's tribal region, the program depicts a city under regular Taliban attack and follows a local journalist deep into Taliban territory. Interviews feature figures on all sides of the conflict-including Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas of the Pakistani military, Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, and Hakimullah Mehsud, a fundamentalist leader who vows to destroy the government for siding with the United States. (45 minutes)

United News, Release 8 (1942): War in the Pacific

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Japanese planes attack a troop convoy off New Guinea; the aircraft carrier Yorktown is bombed off Midway Island. 2. Brazilians are inducted into the army; U.S. and Guatemalan troops parade. 3. An ice carnival in New York City. 4. Planes fly in a practice bombing mission; marines learn to swim in the ocean. 5. U.S. troops and equipment are unloaded at a port in India; a camel caravan carries supplies into Burma as Indian troops move up through jungle terrain. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 10 (1942): U.S. Launches New Aircraft Carrier

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The aircraft carrier Essex is launched. 2. Henry Ford, on his 79th birthday, inspects the first Ford automobile manufactured. 3. Old automobiles race across the Connecticut countryside. 4. Americans pray in a cathedral. 5. Tanks are manufactured and tested. 6. Nazi spies are tried in the Supreme Court; F.B.I. agents with incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine; J. Edgar Hoover; Attorney General Biddle. 7. Flyers don high altitude suits and fly in the stratosphere. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 14 (1942): Everybody Joins U.S. War Effort

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Celebrities in military service (Jackie Coogan; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Clark Gable; Joe Louis; Associate Justice Frank Murphy; Tyrone Power; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; James Roosevelt; James Stewart) and film entertainers on war bond tours (James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Bing Crosby, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Heddy Lamar); scenes of Hollywood and Washington, D.C. 2. Antiaircraft guns manufactured. 3. The Royal Air Force bombs France and Germany. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 20 (1942): Roosevelt's War Tour of Nation

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt views an air show. 2. Polish citizens parade in New York City. 3. U.S. troops patrol New Caledonia in jeeps. 4. A flying hero is received by his home town. 5. Anti-aircraft batteries conduct firing practice in western U.S. 6. Frank Knox and President Vargas see Brazilian air cadets graduate in Rio de Janeiro. 7. Planes, guns, and tanks are loaded on ships. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 24 (1942): New Guinea

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Planes drop supplies to allied soldiers in New Guinea; Australian troops fight and indigenous people carry wounded to field hospitals. 2. The allied war council meets in Washington, D.C.; fighting in North Africa, planes bomb supply lines and German prisoners are taken; President Roosevelt addresses the French people by radio; French soldiers eating; General de Gaulle; Generals Arnold, Doolittle, Eisenhower, and Marshall; Admirals King and Leahy. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 26 (1943): Rommel's Defeat in Africa

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Allied planes and the British 8th Army attack German positions in Africa; German prisoners are massed; General Montgomery and Admiral Cunningham. 2. U.S. troops capture Oran, Algeria, and are greeted by the citizens and take French prisoners; the occupation forces at work. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 27 (1942): U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal Push Back Japanese Troops

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. bombers take off from a Guadalcanal airfield; a long column of marines advances behind artillery support; Admiral Nimitz decorates General Vandegrift and others. 2. The cruiser Boise docks and Admiral King decorates members of the crew. 3. President Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, and Cordell Hull greet Ecuador's president at the White House. 4. General Patton and French officers meet in Casablanca; General Eisenhower, General Clark, and Admiral Cunningham establish allied headquarters in Algiers; French ships docked at Toulon, France, prior to their scuttling. (9 minutes)

United News, Release 29 (1942): MacArthur Blasts Japanese from New Guinea

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Transport planes carry U.S. troops across the New Guinea mountains and infantry units advance through jungle areas. 2. President Roosevelt and Henry Wallace greet President Batista of Cuba in Washington, D.C. 3. Merchant seamen graduate and pass in review. 4. A farm family in the U.S. makes machine tools in their home; chromium is mined in the Pacific Northwest. 5. Coastal batteries fire practice salvoes. 6. Mine sappers clear the way as tanks and infantry of the British 8th Army roll across Libya; Italian troops surrender en masse. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 32 (1943): U.S. Fliers Bomb Two Japanese Bases

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Bombers strike Japanese bases in the Aleutians; the "Flying Tigers" bomb Hong Kong. 2. Coast Guardsmen man a Danish windjammer. 3. Citizens donate blood. 4. Canadian women manufacture small arms. 5. Ships constructed in Brazil; laying an anti-submarine net. 6. British planes bomb a German factory in the Netherlands. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 34 (1943): War News from the South Pacific

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Nurses arrive at Port Moresby, New Guinea, and seriously wounded soldiers are evacuated; marines count 100,000 yen captured when Japanese troops attempted an invasion of the Solomon Islands; the defenses of Guadalcanal are inspected. 2. Air force cadets at Yale; college women take physical training. 3. Dirigible pilot trainees in California. 4. Clark Gable receives aerial gunner's wings and shoots on a firing course. 5. Allied paratroops capture a Tunisian airfield. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 35 (1943): West Point Sends 409 New Officers into U.S. Army

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Cadets receive diplomas and pass in review. 2. Mrs. Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier Yorktown. 3. The physical training of artillerymen. 4. British planes bomb Tripoli and soldiers uncover and collect German land mines in Libya; General Montgomery. 5. Royal Canadian Air Force cadets graduate. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 36 (1943): Chinese Envoy Inspects Canada's War Industries

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. China's ambassador to Canada sees small arms ammunition and tanks being manufactured; tanks being tested in the snow. 2. Scenes in Ottawa where Princess Juliana of the Netherlands has given birth. 3. President Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca, where they ride in a jeep and review allied troops; F.D.R. inspects U.S. troops in Liberia and meets President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro; Admiral King; General Marshall; General Arnold; General Alan Brooke; Admiral Alfred Dudley Pound; General Giraud; General de Gaulle. (11 minutes)

United News, Release 39 (1943): French Sailors Win Ovation in First U.S. Parade

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. French battleship passes New York City's skyline.; French sailors parade in New York City. 2. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is welcomed by the Roosevelts and speaks to members in the House of Representatives. 3. Allied tank destroyers blast German tanks in Tunisia; city officials surrender in Tripoli, Libya. 4. An armored division on the California desert. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 42 (1943): U.S. Army Prepares for Invasion of Europe

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. troops storm a beach in practice. 2. Anthony Eden and Lord Halifax converse with Secretary of State Hull. 3. A steel life raft is tested. 4. Snowplows clear roads in Canada. 5. Soldiers unload mules. 6. Destroyer escorts and tankers are launched. 7. Coast Guardsmen patrol beaches. 8. Lend-lease tanks are used in Australia. 9. A volcano buries a town in Mexico. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 47 (1943): Roosevelt Inspects U.S. Army Camps

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt at camps and air fields. 2. Aircraft carriers are used to transport army planes. 3. Allied troops bomb and capture territory in Tunisia. U.S. and German tanks battle; German planes attack U.S. positions. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 53 (1943): U.S. Forces Blast Japanese from Attu

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. An amphibious landing in the Aleutian Islands. 2. Depth charges are dropped, and a German submarine that tried to attack a convoy surfaces. 3. Clean-up operations in Tunis; hordes of German soldiers are captured; British troops are warmly greeted by citizens; General Giraud reviews French troops. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 54 (1943): 514 West Point Cadets Graduate into U.S. Army

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. General Arnold presents wings to future Army Air Force officers. 2. Gunder Hagg, Swedish track star, begins training in the U.S. 3. The British Navy captures German troops attempting to escape off the African coast; Generals Eisenhower and Giraud review a French/American military parade. 4. Planes bomb German bases in France; liberator planes strike Japanese bases in the Solomons. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 56 (1943): The Fall of Pantelleria

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Landing operations on Pantelleria; the Italian garrison surrenders. 2. A battle-scarred Flying Fortress lands in Washington, D.C. 3. A 5,000-meter foot race. 4. Supplies ferried to shore. 5. Nurses in several hospitals graduate. 6. Chinese troops in Burma dynamite the Burma Road. 7. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes are tested. (11 minutes)

United News, Release 65 (1943): Hamburg, Nazi War Center, Blasted by Bombs

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. 8th Air Force planes bomb Hamburg by day and fight off German fighters on their return to England; Royal Air Force planes prepare for a night mission. 2. The aircraft carrier Wasp is launched. 3. Volo Song wins at Goshen, New York. 4. Scenes at the Quebec Conference (Roosevelt; Churchill; Admirals King and Mountbatten; Generals Marshall, Arnold, and Portal; T. V. Soong; Mackenzie King. 5. U.S. planes bomb Bismarck Islands, and destroyers shell Solomon Islands. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 71 (1943): Arabian Prince Reviews Cadets at U.S. Naval School

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia reviews a parade of midshipmen. 2. Red Cross women ride camels in Egypt. 3. The allied military government in Sicily releases Sicilians from military prisons. 4. Generals de Gaulle and Giraud review French troops in North Africa. 5. Army troops enter villages north of Naples, Italy; Generals Eisenhower and Clark meet. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 72 (1943): Latest Films of the War in Italy

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Army units occupy villages north of Naples. 2. Planes drop supplies to airmen in Burma. 3. Polish patriots parade in New York City. 4. General Arnold inspects air units in England; Igor Sikorsky is greeted by Henry Ford. 5. Princess Martha of Norway decorates Norwegian soldiers in New York City. 6. President Roosevelt addresses Yugoslav airmen. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 78 (1943): Princess Juliana Makes First Visit to Dutch Guiana

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Princess Juliana reviews Dutch and U.S. troops. 2. A volcano erupts on the Pacific island of Niuafoo. 3. A sheep herd is moved across Grand Coulee Dam. 4. A Canadian farm. 5. Marines go ashore on Bougainville and establish a beach head. (11 minutes)

United News, Release 82 (1943): General MacArthur's Forces Win New Bases in Pacific

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Australian troops capture Madang, New Guinea. 2. A navy dirigible patrols for German submarines. 3. The Shah of Iran and his family. 4. A cannon is fired from a B-25 bomber; bombs are dropped. 5. Animals are rescued from an irrigation viaduct. 6. Fighters of the 8th Air Force down German planes. 7. Roosevelt inspects the 7th Army in Sicily. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 87 (1944): Navy Flying Boat, World's Largest, Makes Record Hop

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Mars and its crew en route to Hawaii from California. 2. Test-firing of a 240mm howitzer. 3. Women manufacture gun cotton. 4. Canadian motorcycle dispatch riders take their final cross-country riding tests. 5. SPARS go ice-boating near Boston. 6. A thousand families near Naples leave the caves where they had lived for safety from bombs and receive food from the U.S. Army; ship-to-shore oil pipelines are laid; Allied troops attack Ortona, Italy. (10 minutes)

United News, Release 88 (1944): Navy Launches World's Mightiest Battleship

United News

This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Margaret Truman christens the Missouri. 2. A bond rally in New York's Chinatown. 3. Copper is mined and smelted in Chile. 4. Tests of an Air Forces fire truck that uses carbon dioxide. 5. Canadian sailors take physical training in snow. 6. Allied troops fight in Italy, including scenes of the all-Negro 99th Fighter Squadron. (9 minutes)