As the Korean conflict raged in the early 1950's, the U.S. Army felt the need to produce a "weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas." Produced by the Signal Corps Pictorial Center, these episodes combined actual wartime newsreels with Hollywood footage to create a comprehensive review of U.S. military history. A proud and oft-times poetic piece of cold-war propaganda, this series revels in America's military and technical prowess, and glories...

The Secret Life of Hitler (1958, B&W): The monstrous infamy of Adolf Hitler secures his place as a pivotal figure of the 20th century and a timeless embodiment of evil. Yet few know the other side of the man who lived out most of the war in "The Eagle's Nest," his mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden, surrounded by young women and faithful pets. It was here that Hitler met, wooed and wed an athletic young girl named Eva Braun, who ultimately shared her bed and body with the most bloodthirsty...

General Dwight D. Eisenhower introduces this powerful motion picture which documents the Allied crusade to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. The story begins with the staggering logistics and vast stores of supplies amassed in England and continues with the D-Day invasion. Highlights include the devastating Allied air campaign, the Battle Of The Bulge and the penetration of the Siegfried line leading to the fall of Berlin. With legendary Garson Kanin (Adam's Rib - 1949) and Carol...

The United States Government presents a pictorial record of the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. News reels and footage captured from the enemy depict the Japanese invasion and looting of Manchuria and China. Hitler's legions invade Poland and ignite a World War. The devastation of Europe is photographed as the German armies crush resistance, and occupy France, driving the Allied forces into the sea at Dunkirk. Using real footage and no re-enactments, this documentary concludes...

BRIEF FOR INVASION: Produced by the Army Pictorial Service especially for American workers, this film begins with the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as the Allies begin to dislodge Hitler's grip on Europe. The vital contribution of industry, to keep the enormous streams of ships, planes, tanks, munitions and supplies flowing unbroken, "like a heartbeat" to our valiant troops is demonstrated to be absolutely essential to victory. General Marshall warns the American labor force, "The losses in...

This collection of rarely seen newsreels and U.S. government training films presents incredible footage of world events from 1939 to the fall of Hitler's Germany.NEWS PARADE OF 1939: Air passenger service between America and Europe becomes a reality. A catastrophic Chilean earthquake leaves 30,000 dead. Highlights conclude with the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe.PHOTOGRAPHY FIGHTS - 1944: This U.S. Navy produced short subject demonstrates how expert analysis of aerial photography...

It was the biggest, bloodiest, most expensive military conflict in history. It ended as it began, with a shocking rain of fire from the sky. Millitary deaths exceeded 2,000,000; civilian casualties were more than five times higher. Though similar numbers were being simultaneously racked up in Europe, the Pacific War was in many ways much more complicated and difficult, as its theater of engagement encompassed over 100,000 square miles of open sea dotted with hundreds of contested islands....

It was the biggest, bloodiest, most expensive military conflict in history. It ended as it began, with a shocking rain of fire from the sky. Military deaths exceeded 2,000,000; civilian casualties were more than five times higher. Though similar numbers were being simultaneously racked up in Europe, the Pacific War was in many ways much more complicated and difficult, as its theater of engagement encompassed over 100,000 square miles of open sea dotted with hundreds of contested islands. After...

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944, Color): A thunderous rumble echoes from the horizon. The 324th Bomb Squadron of the US Army Air Corps is conducting a daring daylight bombing raid on the Nazi submarine base at Wilhelmshaven. Among the giant steel birds is a B-17 bomber christened the Memphis Belle. Accompanying the Belle's crew is an army film unit, assigned to record this dangerous flight through the deadly skies over Germany.This documentary, selected for the National...

With the fate of democracy and freedom at stake, Hollywood's biggest stars and studios line up to bring home the message that it will take the sacrifice, determination and hard work of all Americans at home to enable our battlefield troops to achieve victory.Women In Defense: American women arise, alert to the dangers facing our way of life. Katherine Hepburn demonstrates that every women has an important place in the national defense effort. Written by Eleanor Roosevelt and narrated by...

Bombing Of The USS Panay: The despicable Japanese bombing of the USS Panay, on a humanitarian mission in the China Seas, is documented in this 1938 Universal newsreel.Hitting The Beach: This War Department film produced by the Signal Corps covers the wide spectrum of force and logistics brought to bear in a U.S. invasion. Amphibious landing craft, LSTs, (tank landing craft), air support, rapid railroad construction and paratroop landings are some of the many topics depicted in archival...

The sister of crime reporter Ted Lloyd mysteriously appears in a hospital bed, her body mangled almost beyond recognition. Without a cent to his name, Lloyd agrees to withdraw his expose of gangster Edward Riggs in exchange for cash to pay for an operation that will save her life. The newsman's guilty conscience eats away at him, especially when he finds evidence that Riggs is responsible for the death of showgirl Vivian Parker. His sense of obligation to the racketeer prevents him from saying...

On the trail of his father's killers, private-eye Eddie Delaney (Damian O' Flynn) seeks to uncover the events that led to his father's death.Eddie is drawn into the world of shady nightclub impresario and bootlegger Marty Clark, a one-time underworld vice baron who has "gone straight" since prohibition's repeal.Syndicate operator John Underwood (Neil Hamilton) is also employing Eddie to ferret out the murderer. Eddie's web of misplaced loyalties and harbored grudges threatens to erupt into...

Yakima Canutt "created the profession of stuntman as it exists today," according to Charlton Heston as he presented him with a special Oscar in 1967. But before Canutt's days of stunt-doubling for top stars and second-unit directing filmdom's greatest action scenes, the rodeo world champion was a movie cowboy hero himself, as seen in these two Westerns from his silent-era prime.Bad Men's Money (1929, B&W, Silent): Landgrabbers are using every dirty trick in the book to force Helen Saunders'...

Yakima Canutt "created the profession of stuntman as it exists today," according to the Special Oscar presented to him by Charlton Heston at the Academy Awards in 1967. But before Canutt's days of stunt-doubling for top stars and second-unit directing filmdom's greatest action scenes, the rodeo world champion was a movie cowboy hero himself, as seen in these two Westerns from his silent-era prime.The Outlaw Breaker (1926, B&W, Silent): When sheepherders invade cattle territory, bloodshed...

After Raquel Welch conquered the screen in One Million Years B.C., Hammer Studios followed up with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, written and directed by Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment) and based on a story by J.G. Ballard (Crash). Victoria Vetri stars as Sanna, rescued from ritual sacrifice by Tara (Robin Hawdon), a member of a rival tribe. Her survival coincides with the mysterious formation of a new "fire" in the sky: the moon! Sanna's old tribe blames her for this affront to the sun;...

High school football star Tim Dennis has big plans for his future: the University of Notre Dame and gridiron glory! Instead, his mother marries an Englishman, and Tim and his sister are summoned to live with their new family across the Atlantic. There, Tim becomes a student at the distinguished British boys' school Eton, and his free-spirited ways run headlong into time-honored tradition. Mickey Rooney portrays Tim in this fish-out-of-water tale co-scripted by and based on a story by A Yank at...

Robert Taylor wins track meets, friends and Maureen O'Sullivan in this smashing British collegiate comedy costarring Vivien Leigh. Arriving in England to attend Oxford's Cardinal College, cocky American athlete Lee Sheridan (Taylor) soon learns his boasts have earned him more enemies than mates. Dating Molly Beaumont (O'Sullivan), his rival Paul's (Griffith Jones) lovely sister, Lee becomes BMOC when her brother is wrongfully accused of striking a proctor's assistant. Determined to make amends...

While traveling through the deserts of Libya, Mike Malone (Walter Woolf King), a brash and cocky newspaper reporter, uncovers a Nazi plot to incite the Arab tribes to arise and murder all Americans. When he tries to report the imminent danger to the British consul, no one wants to listen. He decides to investigate on his own. Posing as an Arab merchant selling razor blades and shoelaces, Brooklyn native Parkyakarkus befriends the Yankee reporter. He assists him in a series of dangerous...

Jeff Chandler stars as a Navy Commander on a secret mission in the thrilling pirate adventure Yankee Buccaneer. Rather than going to shore for a year as expected, David Porter (Chandler) finds himself charged with a dangerous, covert operation: disguise his vessel and her crew as a pirate outfit to help capture the criminal masterminds who have been attacking America's merchant fleet. Faced with punishing weather, shark-infested waters, ruthless natives and his irresponsible second-in command...

Legendary actor James Cagney stars in the role for which he won an Academy Award--the life of singer, dancer and songwriter George M. Cohan, a true Yankee Doodle Dandy. This non-stop musical tour de force sings, dances and celebrates the life and career of a music man who lifted a nation, the first entertainer awarded the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for his contribution to morale. From his early days as a vaudeville performer to his stardom on Broadway, George M. Cohan composed...

A nostalgic view of the golden era of show business and the man who made it glitter--George M. Cohan. His early days, triumphs, songs, musicals and romances.

Modest budgeted comedy mystery.... Yarn revolves around... an itinerant salesman, who wanders into a western town around the turn of the century and falls for the daughter of the sheriff. After latter is killed by a gang of smugglers [he] sets about tracking down the varmint through a complicated series of ruses. Expose of the varmints in the end takes place when a local youngster simply identifies the killer and his boss who happens to be the town banker. (Variety, April 9, 1947)

Yankee Davis is a traveling snake oil salesman who arrives in the peaceful town of Mystic, Arizona looking for new rubes to con. Instead, he falls in love with an innocent small-town girl, Mary Mason. When Mary's father, a border patrolman, is shot, Davis decides to catch the killer to prove his worthiness to her. He asks an eccentric old prospector, "Shaggy" Hartley, to pose as a rich man and offer a reward for clues about the murder. The unusual pair then learn of a vast conspiracy that they...