Sherman Grinberg Film Library
After end of Korean War, released South Korean POWs in Operation Big Switch arriving in Munsan, South Korea
Title card: "From Korea - New films Operation Big Switch" / ambulances carrying released South Korean POWs arriving / released POWs walking past camera / released POWs stepping away from back of ambulance / South Korean soldiers carrying...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Two years after end of Korean War, four US military pilots, freed from prison in Communist China, arrive in Hawaii
Card: "Paramount News issue no 84" / title "Freedom, four US fliers safe in Hawaii" superimposed over four pilots posing for photo opportunity, left to right Lt. Col. Edwin L. Heller, Capt. Harold E. Fisher, 1st Lt. Roland W. Parks, and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
At start of Korean War, US troops arrive in South Korea and engage in fighting with North Korean forces
Title card: "Pres. Truman Rallies US to mobilization for victory!" / title card: "Common sense and calm determination are the watchwords as the nation faces up to the possibility of a prolonged war and economic problems at home" / title...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Richard Tenneson, one of 21 POWs who first refused US repatriation after the Korean War arrives in Hong Kong en route to home in Minnesota
Title: "Richard Tenneson - A Turncoat Comes Home" superimposed over Richard Tenneson, U.S. war prisoner who had chosen communism, walking to camera with United Nation personnel / LS across railroad tracks of gate and barrier separating...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Austrian prisoners captured during World War II and finally released by Soviet Union arrive in Vienna
Title "Last PWs reach Austria . . . Home from Soviet imprisonment" superimposed over people on train platform waving at released prisoners arriving on train / people waving at released prisoners arriving on train / prisoners reaching out...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Communist Chinese and North Korean POWs in Panmunjom first balked at repatriation and now demand it, shouting anti-American slogans
Title: "Want to go Home…Portrait of Red PWs Who Changed Minds" superimposed over Russian trucks full of communist prisoners of war driving through Panmunjom / VS trucks driving and POWs throwing clothing from trucks, communist soldiers...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, US POWs and South Korean civilians in South Korea slaughtered by Communist troops
Card: "Paramount News issue no 26" / title card: "Korea atrocity disclosures shock nation" / title card: "The grim evidence - Films show massacred GIs, civilians" / US tank rolling down road / parked US tank / close shot of US soldier in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Portia Howe, mother of Korean War POW, boards plane in Washington DC in hopes of convincing her son to repatriate
Portia Howe, mother of Richard Tenneson, Korean War POW who declined to be repatriated to the United States, crosses tarmac at night and boards Northwest Airlines Flight 311 for Tokyo in hopes of convincing her son to return / VS Howe on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Portia Howe holds press conference at Washington DC airport during trip to convince her son, a Korean War POW, to repatriate
Portia Howe, mother of Richard Tenneson, Korean War POW who declined to be repatriated to the United States, at microphones at airport press conference; SOT says she has been in Washington to obtain a passport to go to Korea; she doesn't...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Patricia Hedlund reads telegram she received about her POW husband being on Korean War prisoner exchange list
Christmas decorations behind them, wife of Captain Harry F Hedlund, Patricia and two sons Larry & Tom, snuggle on sofa and talk about Hedlund: she says this is the best Christmas they could have, he was captured in March, he's a bomber...
Hearst Metrotone News
The war between Iran and Iraq rages as Iraq seizes strategic islands along the Persian Gulf.
The war between Iran and Iraq rages as Iraq seizes strategic islands along the Persian Gulf.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Russian POWs in Ukraine await swap to return home
A Russian radioman recounts the moment in February when his unit was ambushed and he became a prisoner of war (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Sky News
UK - Japanese Emperor State Visit - State Dinner
CLEAN: Shows exterior shots protesters demonstrating about Japanese Prisoner of War Camps in the second World War as Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arriving for a State Dinner at the Victoria and Albert Museum during their State...
Hearst Metrotone News
Soldiers exit a helicopter on the ground and run through the jungle in Vietnam.
Soldiers exit a helicopter on the ground and run through the jungle in Vietnam.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Kyiv demonstration calls for return of Ukrainian soldiers in Russian captivity
Relatives and families of Ukrainian POWs gathered on Kyiv's Independence Square to call for an 'all for all' exchange of prisoners of war (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Ukraine's officials give update on record-high prisoners exchange
Ukrainian officials together with ambassadors of the UK and US to Ukraine hold a press conference the day after Ukraine exchanged record-high 215 prisoners of war with Russia (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
President Biden Salutes Troops As "Spine Of America" On Veterans Day
The president honored fallen service members and those who have served in previous wars during a speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Curated Video
Russia, Ukraine Trade Blame For Deadly Attack On POW Prison
Separatist authorities in the Donetsk region of Ukraine said the attack killed at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Freed Moroccan prisoner of war speaks of Ukraine struggle
A Moroccan prisoner of war released as part of an exchange between Moscow and Kyiv says he wants to draw attention to the "struggle" of Ukraine as he returns home (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Hearst Metrotone News
Marines congratulate Major Gregory Pappy Boyington after his release from a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
Marines congratulate Major Gregory Pappy Boyington after his release from a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
Sky News
UN General Assembly meets in New York
CLEAN: Exterior interview with Admiral John Kirby, White House National Security Council Spokesman responding to a question about Saudi Arabia's diplomatic role in the release of prisoners of war in Russia and Ukraine on 22nd September...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : UN issues war crimes warning after death sentences in Ukraine war
The spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says that the United Nations considers the unfair trials of prisoners of war as amounting to war crimes, after three foreigners captured fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to...
Sky News
UK - Japanese Emperor State Visit - State Dinner
CLEAN: Shows exterior shots protesters demonstrating about Japanese Prisoner of WAr Camps from the Second World War outside the State Dinner for Emperor Akhito and Empress Michiko at the Victoria and Albert Museum during their State...
Hearst Metrotone News
Armed Russian soldiers escort German soldiers who hold their hands in the air.
Armed Russian soldiers escort German soldiers who hold their hands in the air.