There are over 700 individual films, edited and unedited. Where multiple films can be grouped into events they are listed below. Click to view PDF summaries or click 'download all' to get all reels for an event as a zip file.
World War 1 / Interwar / World War 2 / Post WW2 / American Politics 1945+ / Space Shuttle Programme
Scenes from WW1, American cities during WW1, Treaty of Versailles.
HD x 14 download all
Rallies, boycotting of Jewish businesses.
HD x 12 download all
German entry into Austria.
HD x 2 download all
4 unedited reels including Chamberlain, UK street scenes, newspapers, the signing of the agreement and Hitler's march into Czechoslovakia and return to Berlin.
4K x 1 / HD x 4 download all
8 unedited reels showing ships of the US Navy, filmed between 1939–41.
HD x 8 download all pdf
Captured German footage, mixture of edited and raw.
4K x 5 / HD x 6 download all pdf
Captured home movies of Eva Braun showing life of Hitler and the inner circle.
4K x 5 / HD x 1 download all pdf
Unedited footage on British and French defence of France.
In progress
Captured Nazi newsreels and features on the invasion of France.
4K x 6 / HD x 2 download all
German films on the construction and operation of the Siegfried Line defences. American footage showing fighting on the Siegfried Line.
HD x 7 download all
Unedited reels featuring planes of the RAF, and the Battle of Britain documentary film produced in 1941.
4K x 10 download all pdf
26 reels showing the preparation for and experience of the Blitz in Britain. Children leaving cities, gas masks, blackouts, aftermath of raids, Churchill.
4K x 25 download all
Captured Japanese film on the attack, American POV of the attack, American and Japanese reconstruction of December 7th. Pre- and post-attack views of Pearl Harbor.
HD x 20 / 4K x 10 download all
Includes the full 8-reel feature Tunisian Victory.
4K x 9 download all
Unedited and edited reels showing the invasion of Italy including landings at Sicily and Salerno.
4K x 4 / HD x 1 download all
Includes all 3 reels of Battle of San Pietro by John Huston, plus rushes.
4K x 4 / HD x 1 download all
Generally includes footage from northern Italy, including the Po Valley. Reels from Climb to Glory. Hanging of Mussolini. Ardeatine Caves massacre aftermath, poverty and rehabilitation.
4K x 2 / HD x 13 download all
Brutal and visually stunning US footage from the short battle at Tarawa.
4K x 2 / HD x 3 download all
Rushes of the US bombardment on the abbey and town at Monte Cassino.
4K x 5 / HD x 5 download all
Rushes and newsreel of American troops liberating Rome.
4K x 7 / HD x 1 download all
Edited and unedited reels of the US Airborne attack on the morning of D-Day.
To come — please search the site for now.
Edited and unedited reels showing the naval approach and fighting on American beaches on D-Day.
4K x 24 / HD x 13 download all pdf
Stunning collection of reels from naval battles in the Pacific. Kamikaze planes hitting US ships, burning US ships, anti-aircraft fire.
4K x 16 / HD x 13 download all
34 unedited reels of US Marines landing and invading the Japanese island of Peleliu. Includes both 16mm colour and 35mm b/w film.
30 unedited reels showing the landings and invasion of Saipan by US Marines. Includes both 16mm colour and 35mm b/w. Also includes The Last Bomb, an edited 4-reel film about the bombing of Japan from the airbase on Saipan.
The following events are being prepared. Please search the site for individual reels in the meantime.
1944 – France – Normandy
1944 – France – Paris
1944–45 – V-1 Bomb — Newsreel showing the V-1 in action in Europe and against London. The Defense of Antwerp against the V-1. Captured German instructional films on the workings of the V-1.
1944–45 – V-2 Rocket — Testing in Germany and eventual relocation to New Mexico.
1944–45 – Belgium – Battle of the Bulge
1945 – Germany – Bavaria
1945 – Germany – Berchtesgaden
1945 – Germany – Cologne
1945 – Germany – Concentration Camps
Unedited reels on the Nuremberg and Malmedy war crimes trials.
HD x 5 download all
3 edited newsreels on the homecoming of American troops to the US.
4K x 3 download all
8 reels relating to Iran, Mossadegh and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
HD x 8 download all
21 reels including newsreel plus outtakes of the election race and 1952 conventions.
HD x 22 download all
11 reels including newsreel plus outtakes and cinematic documentary features from 1964, such as the colour film The President and the Press and the 4-reel feature The Conventions.
HD x 11 download all
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