Bridgeman Arts
They Made News Prog 3, part 2: interview with Howard Winner, WW2 war correspondent and cameraman
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, part 2 - Cameraman tells story of filming Hitler in 1938
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, part 2 - Cameramen, Ted Candy and Stanley Matthews
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, part 2 - Georges Mejat talks in French about filming in WW2
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, part 2 - Interview with French WW2 cameraman Georges Mejat
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
Barnes Wallis, 1966/1967
Rare footage of scientist, engineer and inventor, Barnes Wallis, working in his office. This is the last known colour footage of Wallis and is taken from a longer film, Centenary, chronicling the social and industrial history of the C20th.
Bridgeman Arts
Workers of Britain, city life, military life, soldiers, women and men in arms factories, pilots, bouncing bomb, fighter aircraft
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News Prog 3, part 3: Ken Hanshaw, filmed the Blitz in London in WW2
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
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They Made News Prog 3, part 9: Ted Candy talks about filming D-Day in WW2
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
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They Made News Prog 3, part 8: Sam Greenwald talks about filming D-Day in WW2
Clip from a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, Part 1 - German and British camermen at the beginning of WW2
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century. The film is in rough cut stage (cutting copy) and is intercut with footage illustrating the cameramen's stories.
Bridgeman Arts
March 5th 1936, first Spitfire flight. Spitfires in military service, WW2 combat. Spitfire factory production.
Clip from a Vickers Supermarine B&W film chronicling the development of Vickers aircraft design from the Supermarine in 1925, through the Supermarine 4 monoplane, the S5, S6, S6B, Spitfire, Seafire, Spiteful, Attacker, 508, 510, 535, to...
Bridgeman Arts
They Made News, part 2 - WW2 cameramen
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
Bridgeman Arts
Interview with Alf Hicks, part 2 - cameraman who filmed the Invasion of Normandy, including the Falaise Pocket and the liberation of Brussels.
Interview with Alf Hicks, part 2 - cameraman who filmed the Invasion of Normandy, including the Falaise Pocket and the liberation of Brussels. Filmed in 2007.
PBS
Pbs: Bill Moyers Journal: D Day Revisited
Captivating video program detailing the experiences of soldiers who participated in the Normandy invasion in 1944. Streaming video and transcripts available.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Harry S. Truman Library & Museum: Truman Presidential Audio Collection
Hear some of President Truman's speeches, including the surrenders of Germany and of Japan, from the Harry S. Truman digital archive. Other speeches cover post-war issues such as price controls, and the opening of the United Nations.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: D Day
This elaborate site provides insight into D-Day, as told through the voices of the people who participated in the planning and execution of the invasion and the battle for the Normandy beaches. Content includes a focus on the...
Library of Congress
Loc: War Ends Vj Day
Letters and stories from soldiers as the recall and record their feelings on the day Japan surrendered.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: December 7th, 1941
This film was produced by the Department of War and was overseen by film great John Ford. This full length version was cut to a half an hour for release because it concentrated too much on analysis and history and also because it...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Prelude to the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
This U.S. government film portrays the years up until the time the U.S. entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It also contains Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech. [16:00]
PBS
Pbs: Nazi Prison Escapes at Colditz
Companion website to the NOVA program on Colditz and those who tried to escape from it during World War 2. Includes plans on the "glider" escape where prisoners made a Glider to "fly" out of the prison.
US National Archives
Internet Archive: Landings on Okinawa, 1945/04/09
A Newsreel short film from 1945 showing Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Nimitz sending an armada of 1,400 vessels to Okinawa during World War II.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Tokyo War Crimes Trials
This site from PBS provides a short account giving the major details of the war trials held for Japanese defendants from 1946 to 1948.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Zookeeper's Wife
Ira Flato talks with Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife, a new book about the Holocaust, World War II, and the Warsaw Zoo.