Classic Railway Newsreels

Moto Is Missing

Featurette about the demise, during the early 1940s, of the once-popular Mr. Moto B-films series that starred Peter Lorre.

2007

Swastika

Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movie

1974

Pathe News Invades General Electric Experimental Laboratory

Tesla coil tested at General Electric laboratory in New Jersey VS H. C. White holds a baton that's zapped by a Tesla Coil; he holds up an incandescen

1927

The Atomic Cafe

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was no

1982

Mise Éire

Mise Éire ("I am Ireland") is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse. In the poem, Pearse per

1959

The Battle of France

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

1964

Stunned, I Remain Alert

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's

2020

The Road to the Tokyo Olympics

A documentary film that includes footage of past Olympics held in different countries with an particular emphasis on the activities and successes of J

1963

El amanecer de una nueva era en España

A chronicle of the demonstrations and public events held on the occasion of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic on April 14, 1931 (Sound n

1931

Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled

1937

The Letter to a Chinese Friend

Film by Aleksandr Medvekin to a metonymic Chinese friend, advocating against Mao and the Ussuri River Skirmish.

1969

That Justice Be Done

Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

1945

Procession of Supporters of Esperanto

A parade of supporters of the constructed auxiliary language Esperanto, which is intended to be a universal second language for international communic

1911

Analepsis

The video Analepsis, 2003-04, is composed of a series of excerpts taken from satellite television news reports. The individual 1-4 second clips are us

2004

San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are included

1906

Jornal Português (1938-1951)

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society

2005

Stroheim in Vienna

Issue No. 162 (date: July 16, 1948) of the Austrian newsreel "Welt im Film" shows Erich von Stroheim's arrival in Vienna as part of the cast of Ernst

1948

Nightcrawler

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the

2014

Zelig

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act l

1983

Too Hot to Handle

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he m

1938