Curated Video
WWII POW Camps on U.S. Soil
Between 1942 and 1946, the U.S. government constructed around 700 POW camps on U.S. soil, housing around 400,000 captured enemy soldiers. But what were the conditions like there?
PBS
Concentration Camps Are Older Than World War II
We're all familiar with the haunting images of the concentration camps of World War II. But the history of those concentration camps extends back to the late 19th. century and the invention of barbed wire and repeating rifle [see...
Curated Video
POWs in World War II
This is the untold story of the US servicemen and women held as prisoners of war.
The March of Time
MOT 1945: BATTLE OF IWO JIMA: JAPANESE POWS
VS Japanese Prisoner of War, POW, at opening of cave appealing to Japanese troops to surrender / VS US Marines throwing in smoke grenades, firing rifles / Various Japanese soldiers being pulled out of rubble, fortifications, surrendering...
The March of Time
MOT 1941: NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR TAKEN IN NORWAY RAID
MS Norwegian soldiers, holding gun on German Nazi official on street HA MS Blindfolded Nazi officer lead onboard ship MS Blindfolded Nazi soldiers.
The March of Time
MOT: Pictures of Greece; the end of Nazi occupation - part 12 of 20
MOT 1944: German prisoners and bodies of dead soldiers.
The March of Time
MOT 1945: BATTLE OF IWO JIMA: MOPPING UP
United States Marines advancing on rocky terrain toward final Japanese fortifications in the North, firing shoulder rocket launcher, explosion, others firing rifles into caves / United States Marines surrounding cave of Japanese...
Curated Video
Lozen: Fearless Apache Warrior
At a time when Apache men and women followed specific gender roles, Lozen defied convention – to become one of the finest warriors in the tribe's history.
Weird History
What It Was Like to Be a Civil War Prisoner - Camp Sumter
Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at Andersonville were so horrific that 13,000 soldiers perished, many from overcrowding, starvation, and exposure....
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D-Day: prisoners of war
/ General Dwight Eisenhower shakes hands with soldiers / German soldiers walk past troops with their hands raised in surrender / wounded on stretchers on front of car / prisoners of war marching in a line in Normandy. D-Day: prisoners of...
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Story of a Bataan Death March Survivor: Celebration
/ Story of Corporal Alfred Jolley / children wave stars and stripes at passing military parade / soldiers waving at the crowd smiling / Jolley walking down the street in his uniform / Jolley in front of his old high school / Jolley looks...
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Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated
Men working the land just outside the Mauthausen concentration camp / CU of local men getting ready to push a wagon / locals dig giant hole in the field / aerial view of concentration camp / people walking around the makeshift refugee...
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Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated
At the fence line of the concentration camp / soldier looking at shower fixtures / CU of dead woman lying on the ground / young woman laughing / survivors sitting up in bed clapping / two camp inmates hold up another man as he tries to...
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Bang! Ka-baam! Bash! Crash! Blam! Pow! Cartoon sound-explosions!
Onomatopoeia animations. Cartoon exclamation explosions. Cartoon-sounds like: Bang! Ka-baam! Bash! Crash! Blam! Pow!
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Story of a Bataan Death March Survivor: Homecoming
/ Story of Corporal Alfred Jolley / ship carrying POWs pulling into San Francisco Bay / WAGs women soldiers board the ship and pass out mail to the soldiers / soldiers write return letters / gangplank drops and the soldiers begin to...
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Story of Bataan Death March Survivor: Coming Home
/ Story of Corporal Alfred Jolley / boats on the San Francisco Bay / military band plays / thousands crowded onto the docks waiting / ship in the ocean and a blimp in the air / Corporal Alfred Jolley in full uniform standing on a ship /...
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Japanese soldiers in American POW camp during WWII
/ Captured Japanese soldiers walk slowly through the jungle, looking at the camera / Japanese POWs sitting behind the barbed wire walls of a POW camp / soldier performs a search of POW's clothing / bare chested young boys sitting in a...
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Friedland memorial in Friedland, Germany
Friedland, Germany - September 12, 2018: Aerial view of four 28 m high, stele-like concrete segments were built from the association of returnees, prisoners of war and missing persons of Germany as a homecoming monument after the Second...
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Friedland memorial in Friedland, Germany
Friedland, Germany - September 12, 2018: Aerial view of four 28 m high, stele-like concrete segments were built from the association of returnees, prisoners of war and missing persons of Germany as a homecoming monument after the Second...
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Friedland memorial in Friedland, Germany
Friedland, Germany - September 12, 2018: Aerial view of four 28 m high, stele-like concrete segments were built from the association of returnees, prisoners of war and missing persons of Germany as a homecoming monument after the Second...
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Point of View Video: Hiking on the Alps
Point of View Video: Hiking on the Alps, on the Viel del Pan, at pass Fedaia.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, aftermath of riot by Communist Chinese and North Korean POWs in prison camp on Pongam Island in South Korea
Title "First pictures - Riot aftermath at Pongam prison camp" superimposed over wide shot of prison camp from across body of water / two wide shots of prison camp from across body of water / two closer shots of prisoners standing around...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: soldiers and mountains
World War II / French language / European theater / Eastern Front / part of propaganda film / CU truck driving through dust / CU Russian Cossack / herd of cattle / German prisoners of war walking through mountains / mules being unloaded...