Newsreel Movies

Newsreel coverage of the Prince and Princess of Wales' visit of the 1896 Cardiff Exhibition. Now a lost film, it's considered the first time the...

This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor..

President Harding and his wife paying tribute to a group of Indians (Fragment of a longer piece)

This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

A short wartime propaganda film documenting the initial progress of the AIF 6th Division during the Western Desert Campaign of WWII. The film records...

A story about short sighted cats being given glasses.

People give their opinion to the report on the unpopular Dry Law.

A newsreel documenting King George VI's inspection of Australian troops stationed in England, alongside scenes of their military training and...

A newsreel depicting the funeral of Burmese independence activist U Htun Shein.

Informative film discussing the development of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor.

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the...

Several prohibition agents display cans and bottles of seized liquor for the camera. They are then shown dumping the goods at a junk yard.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on a Commonwealth tour.

Topical Budget 545-2. Newsreel of the 1920s aerial stuntwoman and barnstormer, Sara “Babe” Kalishek. We see her on the ground at first,...

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

G.W. Wickersham, head of Commission, sums up it's findings for Metrotone.

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

The centrepiece of this March of Time film is the dramatised sequence showing the FBI infiltration of a group of American Nazis, whose espionage and...

Abyssinian state ministers visit London during Prince Regent Haile Selassie's diplomatic tour of Europe. A group of Ethiopian state dignitaries...