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Newsreel
see all genres ›Encapsulating recent events, newsreels played before features in movie houses for decades. Before television invaded homes en masse in the 1950s, citizens got their national and international news from other media. The most visually (if not temporally) immediate being this short, factual, narrated form.
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Genres / Ephemera / Newsreel
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The Battle of Britain
Originally released in 1943, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN represents the fourth movie in Frank Capra's epic WHY WE FIGHT documentary series. This film traces the fate of the British during the dark days of the Blitz. It is a portrait of the desperate, but ultimately successful struggle to prevent a Nazi invasion...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Midway
The stars and director of THE GRAPES OF WRATH re-united under very different circumstances two years later for this undeniably hyperbolic yet stirring portrait of U.S. Naval forces rallying to defeat Axis conquerors. "Tom Joad" (Henry Fonda) and "Ma Joad" (Jane Darwell) were among the voice actors...Start your free trial to watch
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December 7th
John Ford and Gregg Toland's DECEMBER 7TH was banned by the U.S. government for nearly fifty years. This restored version runs 82 minutes (with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences) whereas a censored 34 minute version of the film was released in the 1940s and earned John Ford his fourth Academy...Start your free trial to watch
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dirigible "Homeland"
A short documentary portrait of a dirigible leaving the hanger and taking flight. Regardless of the brief duration, the film is a beautiful display of early-1900s lighter-than-air travel and a precursor of the newsreels that would follow in later years..Start your free trial to watch
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Double-Headed Eagle
Rather than offering a contemporary interpretation of history through narration and interviews, filmmaker Lutz Becker allows the disturbing saga of German fascism to unfold on its own terms. The rise of the National Socialist Party is depicted almost exclusively in newsreel footage and clips of features...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
The campaign for a montage style that preserved the intelligibility of film as a historical record was bolstered by the 1927 release of Esfir Shub's compilation film THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY. Universally acclaimed, the film established Shub as a new type of documentarian, an editor-director. Made...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fever of '57
THE FEVER OF '57 shows what happened after the launch of Sputnik and reveals how Cold War tensions escalated between the Superpowers to a fever pitch. THE FEVER OF '57 is a must-see for students. Dramatic and fast-paced, it shows what happened after the launch of Sputnik 1 and what happened in America as a...Start your free trial to watch
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Charles A. Lindbergh: Hero of the Air
On May 20-21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew alone non-stop from New York to Paris, in a single-engine plane without parachute or radio. With this feat, Lindbergh became perhaps the greatest hero of the decade. Fox Movietone's sound film record of Lindbergh's take-off was the first popular sensation of sound...Start your free trial to watch
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Meet Me Down at Coney Isle
After the success of Walter Ruttman's city symphony BERLIN: DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT, produced by Fox in 1927, the studio launched a series of short subjects with location shooting by Fox Movietone news crews, depicting days in the life of various cities with music and sound effects. Welcome to New...Start your free trial to watch
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Mission Accomplished
Produced by the U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures in 1943, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED covers the creation of the B-17 in the 1930s and its extensive use throughout World War II. While the success of the Flying Fortress in the Pacific theatre was relatively well known at the time, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Operation Clarion
Hildesheim, Germany, was bombed extensively during World War II. Of the eight major air raids on the city, the most extensive (until the final, lethal attack that demolished 3/4 of the building in the city exactly one month later) occurred in the midst of Operation Clarion as part of an effort to destroy...Start your free trial to watch
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Report from Britain
REPORT FROM BRITAIN (as crafted by the Royal Air Force of the British Armed Forces and the United States' Eighth Air Force, then stationed in England) documents the toil of the battle in the European Theatre and its impact on the aircraft and, more importantly, the men involved.Start your free trial to watch
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This is Korea
A conflict that American history soon forgot (the subsequent M*A*S*H movie and TV series aside), the Korean War was nonetheless very immediate to the over 300,000 U.S. soldiers deployed, let alone to citizens of the land militarily occupied for three long years. This short 1951 feature produced by the U.S. Navy (in...Start your free trial to watch
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To the Shores of Iwo Jima
A collaboration between various branches of both the U.S. military and film industry, this color two-reeler commemorated the Allied triumph over the Japanese in seizing the volcano island of Iwo Jima, a prolonged, brutal, bloody battle with heavy losses on both sides. The latter is graphically represented...Start your free trial to watch
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A Visit to Los Angeles
To popularize the idea of automobile travel, Ford Motor Company produced Ford Educational Weekly, a film magazine distributed free to theaters. One 1916 series featured "Visits to American Cities." In this episode, Los Angeles is featured at the very beginning of the boom created by oil, movies and...Start your free trial to watch