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...

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...

Built from 1928 newsreels—the year 60 nations vowed to outlaw war—Storck’s razor-edged montage mocks the era’s...

In this experimental collage film, Arthur Lipsett reworks over fifty years of newsreel footage into a surreal audiovisual montage of...

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...

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

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

A story about short sighted cats being given glasses.

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 Hearst Metrotone News reel.

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

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

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

Informative film discussing the development of the New Jersey Turnpike.

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

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.

Newsreel 62 reflects on the participation of two Syrian artists in a 1966 Yugoslavian art show celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...

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...