A documentary showcasing the world’s many different animal species, both past and present.

A look into the lives of a seventh-grade boy and girl as they go through their morning and evening routines… and why not keeping clean and neat brands them as…

Fishing tips from Lee Wulff. Filmed off the coast of Florida.

Part of Disney’s True-Life Adventures series, this film focuses on the lives of lions in Africa.

Garcet, a young French officer just out of military school, joins the French Batallion of the United Nations Forces fighting in Korea.

Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.

This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track.

Documentary about Roald Amundsen

The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously…

Documentary short about the 1953 atomic bomb test in Nevada.

Funded by the American Academy for Asian Studies and assembled from more than 10,000 feet of newsreel and documentary footage spanning 37 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s life from his early…

Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.

London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not…

Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali. The famous Kris Dance is performed.

This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer’s peripheral vision is involved. This is…

Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.

This TravelTalks short focuses on the ancient ruins in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa, and the architecture in Florence, Italy.

Coronet Instructional Media presents a short film about overcoming fear.

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

The official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.

A documentary covering the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz.

A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.

Ritual of introduction, for a Songhaî young woman from Tillabérie, in Niger, to the dance of possession devoted to “Kirey”, genie of thunder.

Once again the moving beam of “Spotlight” swings across the city of today to pinpoint a new story for the screen audience of tomorrow. This time we start from an…

Urban utopia beckons in this idealistic vision of postwar Manchester – fascinating to revisit as Northern Powerhouses and city devolution return to the agenda. Sponsored by the city council, it’s…

This “Theater of Life” series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as described and experienced by Sgt. Charles Reineke, a traffic enforcement officer with the Los Angeles…

This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.

The film illustrates the fact that Australia’s Newcastle, like its British counterpart, has developed into a large city but still retains its essential mining atmosphere. The great steel industry which…

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

Scripted by poet Dylan Thomas, this affecting docu-drama recalls the incendiary bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940. The film focusses on reconstruction and morale: we see the city’s rebirth…

Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made…

German training film from World War II. Sharpshooter: Master of Camouflage and Deception.

This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant Anderson is normally the co-pilot of this B-29, but…

A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, directed by Jiří Weiss and written by acclaimed author Laurie Lee.

Documentary which shows some of the spare-time activities of service personnel and civilians during the war.

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.