Hollywood Newsreel

A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Ki

Newsreel

Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946.

Newsreel

A compilation film of war newsreels and documentary material from historic, sociological and industrial films.

Dizzy Newsreel

Newsreel parodies.

Nonsense Newsreel

A collection of jokes and gags disguised as a newsreel.

America (Newsreel)

Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and African American mil

Filmclub Newsreel

Garbage Newsreel

A group of people go about New York City while Garbage is discussed on the soundtrack

Chicago (Newsreel #12)

As leaders of the Movement met in the relative calm of a Chicago suburb in March to plan the strategy for the summer, the empty streets of the city are waiting, and ominous. An inside look at some of the planning that le

Cutting Room Newsreel

"A brief silent film. Working on an upright Moviola in a cutting room at Preview Theater in Manhattan, 1974. Photographed by David Kofke." - Wheeler Winston Dixon

Newsreel 49

Cuban news segment documenting the takeover of the facilities and property of Hollywood distributors on the island.

Canadian Army Newsreel

The Canadian Army Newsreels hold an important place in Canada's military history. The newsreels were produced by the Army for soldiers serving overseas. The front-line cameramen were soldiers first and took guns into bat

The Last Newsreel

A short documentary produced by the National Film and Sound Archive to promote 'Operation Newsreel', a project to collect and preserve Australian newsreel films, done in the style of a vintage newsreel.

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 zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormo

Army (Newsreel #36)

Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S.military, and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military. Soldiers are interviewed and seen as they face brutalizing treatment and

Break and Enter (Newsreel #62)

Break and Enter documents Operation Move In and the New York squatter’s movement in the 1970s. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the board

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ brings an outsider’s perspective to bear on the US war

Summer '68 (Newsreel #505)

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It documents draft resistance, the growth of G.I. coffee houses, the development of alter

May Day (Newsreel #29)

This film documents a rally in San Francisco sponsored by the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and other speakers addressed thousands of protesters demanding more rights for African Americans and calli

139X (Newsreel #22)

The film details the efforts of Berkeley students to develop support for a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.