Newsreels by decade.
Newsreels by decade. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 80 EXTRA EXTRA:
Pathe News celebrates its 15th anniversary with a banquet at New York's Plaza Hotel, 1925. The Vice President and Maryland's governor give speeches.
Newsreel, May 1960: Khrushchev shows off the wreckage of Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane and walks out on the Paris summit.
Universal Newsreel's look back at 1941: ships, tanks and planes for the democracies, FDR before Congress, and a president's unprecedented third term.
July 1920: Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge are officially notified of their Republican ticket. Ohio, handshakes and a very 1920 campaign.
Universal Newsreel, November 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald is shot during a Dallas jail transfer, days after President Kennedy's assassination.
October 1934: newsreel cameras catch the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles. Graphic and historic.
August 1917: Teddy Roosevelt hosts the Belgian Mission at Sagamore Hill, led by Baron Ludovic Moncheur. Silent, formal, very wartime.
An Atlas missile launches from Cape Canaveral in 1960 and flies 9,000 miles to the Indian Ocean.
January 1942: a British newsreel gag has Hitler's goose-stepping troops skipping to the Lambeth Walk. Wartime anti-Nazi spoof.
July 1918: Teddy Roosevelt stands on Fifth Avenue by St. Patrick's Cathedral as an honorary pallbearer at former mayor John Mitchel's funeral.
Universal's look back at 1961: crisis after crisis, from Cuba to the space race. A newsreel year-in-review released in January 1962.
October 1933: Cecil Dill of Traverse City, Michigan, plays popular tunes by pressing his hands together. Yes, really. Sound pictures from Chicago.
Delegates gather outside the Congress Hotel at the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago, with Governor Whitman of New York in the mix.
Newsreel special on the assassination of President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson becoming the 36th President. A Universal release from November 1963.
December 1945: the Nuremberg trials continue before cameras, with a chart of Hitler's regime. Also, the I.G. Farben explosives plant is blown up.
Theodore Roosevelt walks up to a neighbor's house in Oyster Bay with a Christmas present, then chats with the group. A silent holiday visit from 1917.
Kennedy tours Huntsville, Cape Canaveral and Houston and calls for U.S. leadership in space. A Universal Newsreel from September 1962, with fashion.
June 6, 1944: official pictures of the final preparations for D-Day, with many nations pitching in. Wartime newsreel tone.
Quentin Roosevelt appears in France during World War I, with French and American officers including Eddie Rickenbacker.
May 1960: aerial views of earthquake-wrecked Chile, tidal waves racing across the Pacific, plus a satellite launch from Cape Canaveral.
The first newsreel made for Black audiences, August 1942: a Baltimore merchant mariner who survived a sinking, and the Navy's Great Lakes Band.
U.S. Navy battleships and the carrier USS Lexington on maneuvers. Pre-World War II newsreel footage.
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.
Chicago's 16th annual Bud Billiken Day parade, August 11, 1945, plus American troops landing in Manila. A newsreel made for Black audiences.
The camera pans the house in Ekaterinburg where Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed in July 1918, then shows Bolshevik prisoners.
The Supreme Court bars school prayer in New York classrooms and Kennedy answers, plus boxing and more. A Universal Newsreel from June 1962.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. attends the Women in War Work Congress in Paris, 1918. She ran YMCA canteens and clubs for soldiers in France.
Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President, the youngest ever elected. A Universal Newsreel from January 1961, described by the National Archives.
Rare footage tied to the Titanic story, including E.J. Smith on the deck of the Olympic, and the rescue ship Carpathia. A 1912 newsreel compilation.
Jackie Kennedy christens the Polaris submarine Lafayette, and more news from May 1962. A Universal Newsreel with the original release sheet details.
On July 4, 1917 at Forest Hills, Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech backing vigorous U.S. war involvement, then reviews the local rifle club.
July 1960: a Polaris missile is loaded on the submarine USS George Washington and fired 1,100 miles to its target, twice. A Cold War milestone.
Excerpts from the first newsreel series made for Black audiences, 1942 to 1945, with orchestral musicians and wartime home front stories.
Theodore Roosevelt watches a large pro-war parade in his honor in St. Paul, Minnesota. Flags, officials and a crowd, 1917.
Gromyko and Henry Cabot Lodge trade arguments at the UN Security Council over the U-2 affair. A Cold War newsreel, May 1960.
November 1944 newsreel for Black audiences: a war worker's time-saving idea wins an award, and the Navy's Great Lakes jazz musicians show up.
A 1919 newsreel of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. with sailors and soldiers, noting the founding of the American Legion.
A 1960 look back at 1935: Mussolini's gas attack demo, FDR vetoing the bonus bill, Father Coughlin's rally, and the Indy 500 winner.
Theodore Roosevelt reviews troops at Fort Sheridan and rides in an auto through Chicago on a 1917 tour for military preparedness.
May 1960: the USS Triton returns from circling the globe submerged. Captain Beach gets a Legion of Merit from Ike in this newsreel.
Theodore Roosevelt comes home in 1910 to a huge New York welcome, with Cornelius Vanderbilt and crowds at the Battery. A newsreel of June 18.
Khrushchev tells Moscow the American U-2 pilot Gary Powers is alive and his plane was shot down. A Cold War spy story in newsreel form, May 1960.
A Soviet newsreel on industrializing the USSR, 1925 to 1930, full of factories, machines and displays of power. Official propaganda, dated.
May 1960: after the Powers U-2 affair, Eisenhower explains why the U.S. needs intelligence and recalls his 1955 Open Skies proposal.
Lodge pops open a carved Great Seal at the UN to reveal a hidden listening device. The Council votes 7 to 2 to censure the Soviets. A 1960 newsreel.
July 1960: UN troops from Tunisia pour into the Congo while Belgian troops hold key centers and the Congo demands their withdrawal.
May 1960: Eisenhower proposes Open Skies and shows an aerial photo of San Diego taken from 70,000 feet. A Cold War pitch with pictures.
May 1960: the Big Four leave Paris after the summit collapses, and Khrushchev wags his finger at a tumultuous press conference.
February 1958: night launch from Cape Canaveral of Explorer, America's first satellite, with von Braun and Van Allen at the press conference.
November 1963: a camera on a Titan II second stage films stage separation, with the curvature of the earth in view. A first ride into space.
The big freedom bell rings in West Berlin on the Wall's first anniversary. Checkpoints, jeep patrols and Brandt at a memorial. A partial newsreel.
A B-47 drops an A-bomb on a house in South Carolina, the first such accident. Also: a Hughes Aircraft production line run by punched tape. 1958 newsreel.
January 1959: a huge crowd outside Havana's Presidential Palace approves executions of Batista officials as Castro addresses them.
A short 1964 newsreel clip on fashions. A snapshot of what people were wearing that October.
A weekly 1950 television newsreel about women at work and play, from businesswomen and athletes to housewives and celebrities.
Weekly 1950 television newsreel on women in all walks of life, with Maureen O'Brien, recruiting and employment segments. A time capsule.
Excerpts from All-American News, the newsreel made for Black audiences in the 1940s, from May 1945. Social life, wartime service and community news.
A 1933 newsreel covering mob violence and its aftermath, including a clash with state militia in Maryland. Dated, heavy, and in need of context.
Castle Films rounds up 1945 in newsreel clips, from FDR's death and burial to the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
A newsreel oddity: San Francisco college freshmen and sophomores pelt each other with old, rotten vegetables. Higher education at its messiest.
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.