America Goes Over (Part I) (1918)
The US Army Signal Corps' official film record of America in World War I, part one.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
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The US Army Signal Corps' official film record of America in World War I, part one.
Scott Crossfield drops from a bomb bay into the cockpit of the Skyrocket, straps in and gets the hatch closed. 28 seconds of test-pilot ritual.
Walter Huston plays Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, orator, husband and Civil War commander. D. W. Griffith's 1930 biopic.
NASA flight-test footage of the YF-12 Blackbird, the experimental interceptor cousin of the SR-71, taking off and cruising. Pure speed, no popcorn required.
Part II of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' official record of major World War I battles.
A three-member board mediates disputes. This case: an 18-year-old who wants to marry and a fiancé who wants to wait six years. 1959 TV.
A newsreel oddity: San Francisco college freshmen and sophomores pelt each other with old, rotten vegetables. Higher education at its messiest.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Signal Corps footage from the First World War, labeled Château-Thierry. Raw, real-life documentation from the front.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Fresh recruits get whipped into shape in this circa 1930 Navy recruiting film on basic physical training. Calisthenics, ahoy.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Part III of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' official record of major World War I battles.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
The battleship Utah steers by remote control in this 1930s Navy newsreel, with biplane attack exercises. An early drone moment.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Part IV of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' official record of major World War I battles.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Part V of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' official record of major World War I battles.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A 1930s Navy promo shows the fighting ships of the fleet. Likely filmed around Fleet Problem XVII.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A war drama starring Eleanor Boardman, with John Holland, Edmund Burns and Alma Rubens. The title tells you where she ends up.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A 1930s recruiting film tours a Navy training station and shows what new sailors learned before heading to sea.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A Navy publicity film on the early days of naval aviation, with the USS Texas as the first warship to launch an aircraft in 1919. Wings meet waves.
A 1954 Navy training film that teaches junior officers to lead by paying attention to sailors' mental health.
The Air Force Story covers 1930 to 1935, when technology and training grew and peaceful missions included airdrops to the Navajo Nation and air mail.
An anti-war remix that turns footage of the 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front into a study of war's toll on the mind.
Life aboard a U.S. Navy battleship before World War I, including sailors playing baseball and football on deck.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A 1943 wartime film casting American factory workers as the other front of World War II. Persuasion with a wrench in hand.
Laurence Olivier narrates Thames Television's landmark history of World War II.
The Liberty Boys of '76 ride into a romantic adventure set against Revolutionary War days. Muskets, hideouts and a girl worth saving.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A 1941 documentary on the manufacture, speed and power of the B-26 bomber. Industrial pride at wartime volume.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
U.S. Navy battleships and the carrier USS Lexington on maneuvers. Pre-World War II newsreel footage.
Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President, the youngest ever elected. A Universal Newsreel from January 1961, described by the National Archives.
A 1942 plea to buy more war bonds, with battle scenes and equipment priced in bond terms.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Footage of fighting in the Chinese civil wars of the 1920s.
Universal's look back at 1961: crisis after crisis, from Cuba to the space race. A newsreel year-in-review released in January 1962.
A 1942 dramatization of what carelessness in war production can cost. A grim lesson from the home front.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
How the U.S. got troops and supplies past German U-boats in World War I. A Navy educational film.
Kennedy's news conference goes out live to Europe in the first formal test of the Telstar satellite. A Universal Newsreel from July 1962, with golf.
A 1943 Coast Guard film on fighting submarines in the Atlantic during the war.
King Vidor's 1925 World War I epic follows a young American doughboy from enlistment to the trenches of France.
Kennedy tours Huntsville, Cape Canaveral and Houston and calls for U.S. leadership in space. A Universal Newsreel from September 1962, with fashion.
Bob Hope hosts a 1945 war bond rally, and the guest list is ridiculous: Sinatra, Crosby, Harpo Marx, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda and more.
Last reel of a 1926 World War I comedy about mismatched recruits Riff and Shorty.
Newsreel special on the assassination of President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson becoming the 36th President. A Universal release from November 1963.
Color footage from early 1945: the link-up with Russian troops at Torgau, then Dachau after liberation. Sobering and graphic.
Reel 2 of 7 of the silent war film Richthofen, following fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen. Start here and the dogfights are already underway.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Henry Browne, an African American farmer, grows peanuts and cotton for the war effort and visits his eldest son, a cadet in the 99th Pursuit Squadron. 1942.
Reel 3 of the silent drama on Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, with recreated aerial dogfights. Pick up the story mid-flight.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A 1943 look at how Black colleges joined the war effort with laboratories, students and trainees for medicine and technical work.
Parts 3 to 5 of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' record of the American Expeditionary Forces under General Pershing.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
A 1943 Army newsreel on air raids, the rebuilding of the Munda airstrip by Black engineer troops and the Fifth Army's push through Italy.
Part 1 of a Universal silent about a young American soldier who brings home a filly he saved in the war. A boy, a horse and a long road.
Weekly 1950 television newsreel on women in all walks of life, with Maureen O'Brien, recruiting and employment segments. A time capsule.
Three short 1944 pitches shown in a Baltimore theater to Black moviegoers, on daylight saving and civil defense. Home front persuasion, up close.
A 1929 travelogue of Honolulu and Hawaii with Navy ships sailing across the Pacific. Sparkling water, sun and sailors.
WWII and Korea era war films, plus federal Why We Fight style documentaries
Two rival brothers both love Mary, and both enlist in the Union Army. A 1911 Civil War drama where love and duty collide at camp.
American troops in North Africa and Egypt in 1943, in color: docks, a military parade, bomb-damaged buildings, tanks and troops in action.
Theodore Roosevelt watches a large pro-war parade in his honor in St. Paul, Minnesota. Flags, officials and a crowd, 1917.
Theodore Roosevelt reviews troops at Fort Sheridan and rides in an auto through Chicago on a 1917 tour for military preparedness.
Queen Mary and King George, in an Admiral of the Fleet uniform, walk in procession into St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Royal pageantry, 1918.
Sarah Bernhardt addresses more than 50,000 people in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on July 4, 1917. She speaks from an open touring car.
Theodore Roosevelt at public events backing the war effort in 1917 and 1918. Camp visits, speeches and a Belgian mission.
Theodore Roosevelt speaks to soldiers assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill in 1917. A porch, a regiment and a speech.
Soldiers march in winter gear, biplanes fly in formation and mechanics prep a plane. Footage of the Roosevelt sons' regiments, 1917 to 1918.
D. W. Griffith's 1918 World War I drama with Lillian Gish and Robert Harron. Made as wartime propaganda, so view with context.
A 1974 educational film retracing FDR's presidency, from the Great Depression to the end of World War II.
Quentin Roosevelt appears in France during World War I, with French and American officers including Eddie Rickenbacker.
Alexandre Volkoff's 1930 adventure based on Tolstoy's Hadji Murat, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin.
The Fifteenth Infantry in campaign uniforms and gear on Governor's Island, New York, captured around the turn of the century.
Excerpts from the first newsreel series made for Black audiences, 1942 to 1945, with orchestral musicians and wartime home front stories.
Committees visit Admiral Dewey aboard the cruiser Olympia in 1899, an Edison actuality of a very formal handshake.
Admiral Dewey stands before the camera on the cruiser Olympia and says goodbye to a Washington committee. An 1899 Edison actuality.
Part 1 of D. W. Griffith's 1924 American Revolution epic. Lots of muskets, lots of history, lots of Griffith.
Silent 16mm home-movie footage of a July 1930 U.S. Army training exercise near Fort Hoyle, Maryland, part of the between-the-wars civilian training camps.
The second half of D. W. Griffith's 1924 epic of the American Revolution.