Newsreel Movies

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

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...

Fest organized by Irmandade do Outeiro Nossa Senhora da Glória with the attendance of president Eurico Gaspar Dutra.

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

Newsreel coverage of the Prince and Princess of Wales' visit of the 1896 Cardiff Exhibition. Now a lost film, it's considered the first time the...

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

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

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

This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

A story about short sighted cats being given glasses.

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...

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

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 Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

Informative film discussing the development of the New Jersey Turnpike.

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.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on a Commonwealth tour.

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.