Nazi TV: 1939
Some very rare footage of 1930’s television broadcast by Goebbles to the television parlours of Berlin. Just imagine if the opposing team had won World War 2. This is your Saturday night TV folks.
Some very rare footage of 1930’s television broadcast by Goebbles to the television parlours of Berlin. Just imagine if the opposing team had won World War 2. This is your Saturday night TV folks.
Navy dirigible Akron crashed in the ocean near the New Jersey coast April 4, 1933, during a storm. Only 3 survived out of a crew of 76 men. (silent partial newsreel)
Excerpts from a National Geographic documentary narrating the history and final days of Tsar Nicholas and the House of Romanov.
Featuring Bimbo and that character who would soon be called Betty Boop. The Fleischer studio was known for surrealistic animation and this is a fine example.Note how Betty is a human with dog ears in this film. She was gradually changed from a dog to a human over time. Her dog ears would soon become hoop earrings.
Filmed in 2007, this is a film clip featuring Civil War re-enactors who are demonstrating the proper manner of loading a musket on the battlefield.
Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement. Mrs Pankhurst was associated with the struggle for the enfranchisement of women in the period immediately preceding World War I.
Additional hand-colored footage from the video, “World War 1 in Color” (which can be purchased on this site) depicting those who participated in the ground war portion of the slaughter. Absolutely Remarkable.
Original theatrical trailer to 1981’s camp masterpiece starring the incomparable Faye Dunaway as Christina Crawford’s version(if you ask me, questionable) of her adopted mother Joan Crawford.
The Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in France–resting place of those who died during the Battle of the Argonne Forest.
Incredible scenes from METROPOLIS, the movie which was made in 1925 to 1926 by German Ufa and directed by Fritz Lang. The music added is from the Shostakovich Symphony No.11.
A documentary presenting the history and development of Mesopotamia, from it’s earliest days through the Twentieth Century.
At the height of the Great Depression, eleven ironworkers sit eating lunch on a steel beam – boots dangling 850 feet above the sidewalk of 41st Street — Central Park and the misty Manhattan Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them. The definitive counterpoint of epic and mundane — a symbol of the indomitable working man.For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men — and the photographer that immortalized them — remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. “Men at Lunch” is the revealing tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.
Assembled black and white footage accompanied by voiceover commentary tells the story of the Nazi rise, beginning with World War I, through the 1945 collapse of Berlin.