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- StarsGraham McNameeHerbert MorrisonFilm of the famous airship explosion.
- A film documenting the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge during a severe windstorm.
- DirectorAbraham ZapruderStarsCharles BrehmHoward BrennanJohn ConnallyThe home movie footage shot by Abraham Zapruder that caught the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
- StarsRobert MacNeilJim LehrerSam ErvinThe Senate Watergate hearings got underway May 17 and were the major focus of Watergate developments during the summer. A parade of clean-cut, young, contrite former CRP and White House aides appeared, some to admit perjury during earlier investigations. They drew a picture of political sabotage that went far beyond Watergate, motivated by extreme loyalty to Nixon and by a belief that any tactics against people who had supported anti-Vietnam war demonstrations were acceptable. Perhaps the most important revelation of the committee hearings came as a result of closed-session questioning of Alexander P. Butterfield, that the President's offices were equipped with a special voice-activated system which tape recorded all conversations. The existence of the tapes entirely changed the Watergate case; presumably the evidence existed to prove or disprove Dean's allegations.
- StarsPeter DeanJoseph BarabePhil ChamberlainAbraham Zapruder's home-camera footage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is treated to digital re-mastering. We also get to see the images hidden "between the sprocket holes, " making for a wider view of this much-analyzed event.
- StarsRichard NixonPat NixonIn a campaign broadcast, Senator Richard Nixon, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, discusses a political fund which had been raised for him and his personal finances.
- StarsJohn F. KennedyRichard NixonFrank McGeeSenator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, participate in the first set of general election presidential debates in United States history.
- StarsJimmy CarterGerald FordBarbara WaltersPresident Gerald Ford, the Republican nominee, and Governor Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee, participate in a series of presidential debates.
- StarsRonald ReaganRuth HinerfeldBarbara WaltersCandidates in the 1980 U.S. presidential election participate in debates.
- DirectorVincent ScarzaKenneth ShapiroStarsBob GeldofBryan AdamsStuart AdamsonThe broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
- StarsMarian AndersonJoan BaezEva Jessye ChoirARC Identifier 49737 / Local Identifier 306.3394. Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., August 1963. People walking up sidewalk; gathering on Mall, standing, singing. Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, crowd gathered on the Mall. People marching with signs, many men wearing UAW hats. People at speakers podium, men with guitars. Crowds outside of the White House, sign: The Catholic University of America. Band, people marching down street. Many signs, including All D.C. wants to vote. Home Rule for DC; Alpha Phi Alpha; and Woodstock Catholic Seminary for Equal Rights. Lincoln Memorial with crowds gathered around reflecting pool. People singing and clapping at speakers platform. Signs, people clapping. Man speaking, woman playing guitar and singing at podium. More speakers and shots of the crowd. A chorus, NAACP men in crowd. Close-ups of people in crowd with bowed heads. Shots taken from above of White House. More speakers, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Women at podium singing We Shall Overcome. Crowd swaying, singing, holding hands.
- StarsRichard NixonTwo of President Nixon's broadcast: Pres. Nixon Defends His Office On Watergate Charges & Pres. Nixon Speaks From White House On Watergate.
- StarsPierre BlancharNoël CowardGenuine documentary footage shot in Paris at the moment of French liberation from Nazi occupation, with narration; the Paris streets become a place of war and then triumphant celebration.
- DirectorEdmund ReekStarsJoe KingJoe AdonisFrank CostelloThe Movietone news department took the televised proceedings of the United States Senate Crime Investigating Committee hearings, also filmed in their entirety by Movietone News cameraman, culled out the hours of dull senators-vs-lawyers exchanges, and came up with fifty-two minutes of what Fox dubbed the highlights. What they also had, that the television audience didn't have, was revealing close-up that the static-placed television cameras didn't provide, plus scenes outside the court-room in New York City that caught the arrival and departure of the politicians, witnesses and Mafia members, plus cuts to the press room and the hearings in Washington.
- DirectorDavid AtwoodStarsTom AtkinsJames BrownBobby Byrd
- DirectorLes BlankSkip GersonStarsKen PattersonDocumentation of 1967 Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In.
- DirectorHerz FrankA 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.
- 19101h 40mNot Rated5.8 (144)StarsJames J. JeffriesJack JohnsonBilled as the "Fight of the Century", reigning champion Jack Johnson takes on former champion James J. Jeffries in a gruelling 15-round beatdown.
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsMarie ElineEthel WrightJames CruzeAn indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
- Courtesy of the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association, this helpful short shows you how good housekeeping and fresh paint can protect you and your family from the worst of an atomic blast.
- StarsMarian AndersonHarold L. IckesKosti VehanenShort film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Footage of the aftermath of the great San Francisco earthquake, which struck on the morning of April 18, 1906, destroying a large part of the city.
- StarsCarey WilsonThis shows the natives of Bikini Island as they were being evacuated and relocated (o.k., dispossessed) from their island prior to the atom bomb tests.
- StarsRichard NixonThis historical film in color from the CIA Film Library covers President Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing and the Great Wall in China.
- DirectorRobert KeiferStarsJohn BurkeBill BurnDick BurroughsThis documentary presents a story about the day one hundred and forty-seven deadly twisters swept through Kentucky, Ohio, and Alabama. The funnels devastated large portions of eleven states, taking three hundred and seven lives in the United States and eight more in Ontario, Canada. It includes extensive footage of the tornadoes actually striking Louisville, Cincinnati, and Xenia. It also shows how early warning, advance preparation, and coordination in emergency operating centers have helped to save many lives.
- DirectorG.W. BitzerStarsMarcus HannaWilliam McKinleyTheodore RooseveltThe first sequence (ca. 49 ft.), views of President William McKinley speaks to the crowd during his inauguration in Washington, DC. We see crowds on Pennsylvania Ave., NW, passing by the Willard Hotel during the inauguration festivities. A military unit on horseback rides down the court of honor, the area on Pennsylvania Ave., NW, going down 15th to 17th streets. President and McKinley and his party reviews the inaugural parade from a stand here. McKinley tips his hat to the crowd as his carriage passes the Willard Hotel. Stting beside McKinley in the carriage is Sen. Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio with members of the President's special escort, Troop A of the Ohio National Guard, and aides aides with guards. The man riding alone in the second carriage is Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
- DirectorA.C. AbadieShows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, disembarking at Ellis Island, N. Y. A most interesting and typical scene.
- Collection of 21 American short silent films. The films were taken from April 18, 1904 to May 16, 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and document various Westinghouse manufacturing plants.
- DirectorG.W. BitzerIn one long take, the camera shows us the journey of a subway train as it makes its way from Union Square to the old Grand Central Station.
- DirectorCharles SheelerPaul StrandThis groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
- DirectorEmile de AntonioStarsJohn G. AdamsRoy M. CohnRay JenkinsAn unfiltered, unflinching document of the notorious 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, compiled entirely from raw TV footage (with no narration, music, or added scenes).
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsGeorge StevensRaw footage filmed by George Stevens during World War II between 1944 and 1946 for the US Army Signal Corps. Includes footage shot at D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Dachau concentration camp.
- DirectorSamuel FullerA film that documents the burial of those who lost their lives at the Holocaust camp in Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.
- From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
- DirectorJames BlueStarsCarl RowanMarian AndersonJoan BaezA 1964 documentary film about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.
- A short documentary which chronicles the riots that occurred in Chicago when the Republic Steel employees went on strike on Memorial Day, May 26, 1937.
- StarsRobert LucasShort film which documents the Chicago Civil Rights March.
- StarsJacques RoggeAleksandr MedvedOsman DuralievBroadcast television coverage of the Munich 1972: Summer Olympics Games of the XX Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Munich, Bavaria, West Germany from 26 August 1972 through 11 September 1972.
- 196446m8.0 (11)TV SpecialDirectorMarshall DiskinStarsMuhammad AliDrew Bundini BrownAngelo DundeeThis was the first heavyweight title fight between Cassius Clay (aka Muhammad Ali) and Sonny Liston. Clay won the fight by technical knockout (TKO) after six rounds, when Liston failed to answer the bell for the seventh round.
- StarsAdolf HitlerHitler's first speech as the elected Chancellor of Germany. Subject is a call for German's to hand the Nazi party total power in Germany.
- DirectorFélix MesguichStarsWilliam McKinleyA crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1897.
- StarsJohn F. KennedyRichard NixonHoward K. SmithA televised debate between 1960 presidential candidates John F. Kennedy (Democrat) and Richard M. Nixon (Republican). Most political observers agree that Nixon came across poorly--unprepared, nervous and sweating profusely--while Kennedy seemed calm, collected, confident and knowledgeable, and the general consensus was that Kennedy handily won the debate, and it was this performance that convinced much of the public that Kennedy would be a better president than Nixon.
- StarsJohn F. KennedyThe 35th President of the United States and the inauguration.
- DirectorChet ForteStarsHoward CosellBobby RiggsBillie Jean King
- StarsDhyan ChandDean CromwellHenri de Baillet-LatourClosed circuit television coverage of the Berlin 1936: Summer Olympics Games of the XI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Berlin, Prussia, Germany from 1 August 1936 through 16 August 1936.
- DirectorLee De ForestStarsRobert LaFolletteU.S. senator Robert LaFollette, running for President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1924, gives a campaign speech in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- DirectorLee De ForestStarsFranklin D. RooseveltFilm shows Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech nominating New York governor Al Smith as candidate for President at the Democratic national convention in New York City on 26 June 1924.
- British Pathé newsreel chronicling the fateful last day of the German airship Hindenburg, as it flew over New York City on May 6, 1937, before exploding into flames that night in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people.