US National Archives
Archive: Friendship Seven
1962 film [57:52] film depicting Astronaut John H. Glenn's first American orbital space flight, documents flight of Friendship Seven in Project Mercury, including a close look at tracking stations around the world.
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Archive: Hindenburgh Crash
National Archives film [10:11] of the 1937 Hindenburgh crash.
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National Archives: Voyager Ii Uranus Fly By
National Archives video [28:06] discussion of the discovery of new moons and facts discovered about Uranus.
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Archive: The War of 1812
United States Navy training film [19:57] published in 1955 depicting the history of the U.S. Navy through the War of 1812.
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Nara: How Airplanes Fly
Department of Transportation video [18:29] from 1968 on the fundamentals of flight. Vintage animation and live sequences explains basic aerodynamics, forces of lift, weight, thrust and drag.
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Nara: Big Picture: To Keep and Bear Arms
Video [29:01] published ca. 1974 on the American rifle and its historical role in keeping America free.
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Us National Archives: The Story of Gasoline 1948
This video clip talks about "modern gasoline" and its role in society. It also illustrates how carbon molecules are formed.
US National Archives
Fdr Presidential Library: Manpower
Watch a video produced by the War Power Commission in World War II that shows how factories were transformed from peacetime production to wartime industries. Men were retrained, industries retooled, and women joined the workforce in...
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Nara: American Originals: Kennedy at the Berlin Wall
This National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) site provides background for JFK's speech at the Berlin Wall in 1963, as well as access to sound files with speech excerpts.
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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.
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Internet Archive: July 1945 Newsreel
Watch this newsreel from the Army Pictorial Service, the first part of which shows President Truman at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, after the surrender of of Germany.
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Archive.org: Fda: Drug Development and Approval Process
Internet archived material from the Food and Drug Administration on drug development and approval process. [13:17]
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Archive: Radio Set An/vrc 12
Vintage film [26:30] from 1963 on the AN/VRC-12 Radio set. Technical information from the Department of Defense describes features, capabilities, installation, operation and maintenance.
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National Archives: Berlin, 1961
A 1961 film [37:35] of U.S. military in Berlin.
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Internet Archive: Hindenburg Explodes (1937)
Watch the movie of the zeppelin, Hindenburg, as it was launched in Geermany, and exploded just before landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey. [5:26]
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U.s. National Archives: You Tube: Celebrating the Immigrant Experience
A presentation of what moving to the United States means to immigrants. [8:03]
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Internet Archive: Doolittle Raid Launch Footage 1942
See live footage of the bombers taking off from the aircraft carrier at the launching of the raid on Japan in April, 1942. A brief description of the raid accompanies the video.
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Internet Archive: 78 Rpm Recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" From 1924
Listen to the original recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," with Gershwin himself on piano, and hear what orchestral jazz of the 1920s actually sounded like.
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Internet Archive: As You Like It
In this first film version of William Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy, Sir Laurence Olivier stars as Orlando while Elisabeth Bergner is Rosalind, his secret admirer who disguises herself as a boy in order to stay near to him.