Summary: Let us...brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour.' -Winston Churchill Items in this compilation include, * Churchill's speech given at Guildhall, London, on 2/23/40 at a luncheon held in honor of the crews of the Exeter and the Ajax after their victory during the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1990
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Summary: World War II - USMC takes Cape Gloucester in New Guinea
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1943
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Summary: Churchill speech after outbreak of war; says that Britons won't believe Nazi propaganda and won't quit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1939
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Summary: World War II - Battle of Britain footage w/audio of Churchill speech praising RAF pilots for defending Britain; "never have so many owed so much to so few
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Washington, D.C.: Historic scenes as the first peace-time draft in the U.S. gets underway. Secretary of War Stimson draws out the first number, No. 158, and as President Roosevelt broadcasts a message to the country, America's youth prepares to answer the call to arms! Reel 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Exclusive pictures of the metal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. Reel 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Nuremberg trials. In the historic scene of the trial's opening, chief U.S. prosecutor Robert Jackson speaks and the presiding judge asks each defendant to plead either guilty or not guilty.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: US switches ambassadors to Germany; Hugh Wilson replaces William Dodd; Dodd says he doesn't want to be an envoy to a fascist state that denies religious and intellectual liberties.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: World War II - Nazis bomb Paris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - BEF (British Expeditionary Force) moves into Belgium
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - Battle of Britain and London Blitz
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - German newsreel of invasion of Low Countries. German Voiceover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - defusing and destroying a beached sea mine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - French troops on the front line
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Anti-aircraft guns
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Mobile heavy artillery
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - British siege of Italians at Keren, Ethiopia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1941
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Summary: World War II - US military technology, includes barrage balloons and flame throwers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1941
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Summary: World War II - manufacturing the Bristol Beaufighter aircraft
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1941
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Summary: World War II - Story covering the Russian offensive along the Moscow front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1942
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Summary: World War II - Reel on US Troop Carrier Command system of airlifting troops and supplies
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1942
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Summary: World War II - British Gov't film on need for scrap metal for munitions
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1942
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Summary: World War II - Military technology: Army puts on war demonstration for civilians in a stadium
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1942
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Summary: World War II - Lancaster bomber factory (part one)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1942