Newsreel Movies

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

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

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

An American propaganda film produced by the South West Pacific Area Newsreel, an internal military newsreel that both chronicled and uplifted the...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

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...

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

Informative film discussing the development of the New Jersey Turnpike.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

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