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Kontakt!
Kontakt!
About the illegal radio station A.K.Y. and the men that operated it in Norway, based in Kristiansand and Oslo, that helped carry the fight against the Nazis in the bleakest days of WW2. ...
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Her Honor, the Nurse
Her Honor, the Nurse
This RKO-Pathe Screenliner short looks at the duties of the modern nurse. The story tracks the education of a student nurse as she works toward graduation and shows the earning of her ...
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5.7
A City Decides
A City Decides
A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 1956.
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6.5
Sea Ballerinas
Sea Ballerinas
Two kinds of starfish, the brittle and the feather. The brittle star moves its arms alone, without the aid of suckers. Underneath is a single opening. Stalks move food close to the ...
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Rolling Mill
Rolling Mill
In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to operate. The viewers could see the final ...
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The Naked Eye
The Naked Eye
The Naked Eye is a 1956 American documentary film about the history of photography directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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5
Aqua Babes
Aqua Babes
This short subject shows Lissa Bengston teaching a group of three- and four-year-olds how to swim in a pool. Miss Bengston, a member of the Royal Academy of Physical Education, ...
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Welcome to the Queen
Welcome to the Queen
Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.
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9
Any Man’s Kingdom
Any Man’s Kingdom
A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.
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6.1
Warszawa 1956
Warszawa 1956
Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.
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Central London Traffic
Central London Traffic
Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new around the capital.
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Alaska Lifeboat
Alaska Lifeboat
This "Theater of Life" series short focuses on a medical services ship that stops in the native village of Haines, Alaska. The natives are depicted as superstitious of modern medicine. ...
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7.5
Les Anneaux d’Or
Les Anneaux d’Or
At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold ...
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Mountain Spring: The Flinders Range
Mountain Spring: The Flinders Range
Progress in South Australia manifests itself around the Flinders Range country in the industries of Whyalla, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Leigh Creek and Aroona Dam. Wildflowers cover the ...
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6.5
Samoa
Samoa
One of Disney's "People and Places" series looking at the Polynesian kingdom of Samoa.
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5.7
Crashing the Water Barrier
Crashing the Water Barrier
The story of Donald Campbell, son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, British champion auto-racer, and his efforts to survive driving a jet-powered boat at record speeds on Lake Meade, ...
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8.5
Link Span
Link Span
Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with those of France and all the ...
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Fighter Wing
Fighter Wing
Fred Davis introduces us to Canadian Air Force operations in Zweibrucken, West Germany. Follow Green Section as they perform drills and explain what it takes to be a fighter pilot.
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The True Story of the Civil War
The True Story of the Civil War
Documentary short about the American Civil War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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The Story Of Television
The Story Of Television
Shows efforts of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in the creation, development and introduction of the all-electronic TV system; explains how science made television a working reality.