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This April 5, 1951, Universal Newsreel reports on the death penalty for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

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This 1958 U.S. Army “Big Picture” film documents the events in Europe after the end of World War II that led to the Cold War and the formation of NATO.

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• 21,515 views

The Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum added narration to archival film, photographs and audio recordings to tell the story of FDR during World …

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• 21,182 views

This Longines Chronoscope interview from December 1951 focuses on the issue of McCarthyism and the threat of communism in the United States. Arthur Garfield Hays was co-founder and general c…

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• 18,757 views

In a 1945 documentary used in the Nuremberg Trials post World War II, footage is shown from the Penig concentration camp and the conditions of the few living survivors found there during the…

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• 10,237 views

The U.S. Army "Big Picture" episode shows footage of the North Korea invasion and the United Nations response.

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• 9,107 views

President Woodrow Wilson meets with foreign leaders at the end of World War I. These talks led to the Treaty of Versailles. This is narrated by former President Herbert Hoover.

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• 9,012 views

An excerpt from "Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire", a CBS Reports documentary from 1965 that traces the history of the Ku Klux Klan including its 1915 resurgence inspired by the silent fil…

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• 8,237 views

From a film, American Harvest, that shows the wide variety of American businesses and industries that produce the materials needed to manufacture Chevrolet cars, this segment focuses on the …

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• 6,848 views

This portion from the 1989 film "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" describes some of the reasons why people left their home countries and traveled to the U.S.

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• 6,329 views

Historian Richard Norton Smith explained the role that the failed mission to rescue hostages in Iran in President Carter's defeat in the 1980 election.

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• 5,911 views

This 1962 film documents Germany and the city of Berlin after World War II. It highlights the factors that led to the division of Germany and the city of Berlin.

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• 5,891 views

A segment on the media coverage during the Iran Hostage Crisis from the documentary 444 Days to Freedom, What Really Happened in Iran - The Inside Story.

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• 5,502 views

A compilation of portions of Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” speech delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. was played.This speech is often regarded as the most important Churc…

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• 3,912 views

This 1965 CBS News special report anchored by Morely Safer looks at a battle in Vietnam that began on October 19, 1965, and lasted for five weeks.

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• 3,689 views

This Office of War Information film documents the founding United Nations conference of April to June 1945 in which the U.N. Charter was created, debated, and signed by all 50 participating …

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• 3,146 views

Milton Eisenhower hosted and narrated this 1943 film that attempts to justify the need to move Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes to internment camps in isolated areas of the wes…

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• 3,091 views

A documentary detailing the project to create a nuclear bomb during World War II. The Library of Congress and Los Alamos National Laboratory co-production uses interviews and oral histories …

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• 2,923 views

From a film, American Harvest, that shows the wide variety of American businesses and industries that produce the materials needed to manufacture Chevrolet cars, this segment focuses on the …

• 7 minutes
• 2,786 views

A 1952 film produced by the U.S. government that explains how the Social Security system works.

• 6 minutes
• 2,741 views