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The Nikolskaya Tower, the Spasskaya Tower, Lenin's Tomb and former Soviet Parliament building at Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

Tourists visit Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of the Nikolskaya Tower, Kremlin Arsenal and the Spasskaya Tower at the Moscow Red Square (Red Square, 3, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The tourists stand in front of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). Former Soviet Parliament building in the background.

Date: 1970
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073445
A 1942-1943 film report to the American public about the progress of World War II in Europe and the Pacific.

Opening slate at start of film reads: "1942--1943 The Turn of the Tide." A column of British armor enters Bengazi, Libya, led by several troops in tankettes. Next seen are a Lee Medium Tank, M3 followed by an infantry tank, a jeep, another infantry tank and another Lee M3 Medium tank. Closeup of local people greeting the troops with upraised hands giving the "V" for victory sign. Another Lee M3 tank passes close by the camera. Black smoke is rising in the background. Scene changes to a half sunken ship near another burning in the harbor. Another view of this from further away above port buildings. Closeup of three smiling British soldiers leaning over a cartoon on a tank, of Winston Churchill (As a bulldog smoking a cigar and wearing a cap with the word "Victory" written on it). A crumpled captured flag with swastika on it. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stands atop a vehicle (unseen) and looks through binoculars. Below, a column of British supply vehicles is making its way along a path in the desert. Two tanks coming toward the camera through sand. Animated map shows Nazi territory being threatened by the Allies from the Mediterranean, the USSR, and the English Channel. Views of Soviet infantry advancing against German forces in the snow of winter on the eastern front. Soviet troops firing updated 76-mm divisional gun model 1902 hidden in woods. Shells exploding in snow-covered field as Soviet BT series tanks advance. Various Soviet artillery firing from fixed gun batteries and from woods. A shell striking in distance. Fallen German soldiers lying on snowy field. Makeshift battlefield crosses marking graves of fallen German soldiers. German steel helmets lined up in the snow. A sign, posted on a birch tree, lists the names and birth dates of 16 German soldiers from the 3rd Panzer Division (3Pz-Pi-BH.39) buried at this site on November 28, 1941. Scene shifts to Joseph Stalin addressing Soviet troops in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. All the soldiers in formation seem to be singing (unheard). Film switches to animated map again. This time delineating the Eastern front being pressed by the USSR, and showing area of the 2nd Soviet winter offensive in 1943. Change of scene from Europe to the War in Asia, against Japan, shows General Douglas MacArthur after arriving by a B-17 bomber at a Pacific island American base. He ascends a steep hill in a jungle area, accompanied by other officers. Closeup of MacArthur. American infantry moving in single file in New Guinea, as a field piece fires a round in the direction they are headed. U.S. artillerymen load shells into a 105mm howitzer gun. A fire burns as moping up begins on New Guinea. An Australian soldier is seen firing a Bren gun in jungles. Other Australian soldiers fire a mortar that explodes, raising earth and dust. More views of shells exploding near Allied soldier advancing. A soldier with fixed bayonet makes a fake charge toward the camera. Views of Japanese prisoners of war guarded in an outdoor compound. Japanese dead soldiers on Guadalcanal. An animated map shows new battle lines in the Pacific, closing in on Japan, with pressure from China, the USSR, and the Pacific islands being captured by the U.S. Arrows are added showing new pressure from American naval fleets and from British and American bombers out of Australia and captured islands.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027920
General Sikorsky and Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov meet in the Soviet Union.

Poland aids the Soviet Union during German-Russian Combat in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during World War II. General Sikorsky of Poland is greeted by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union at Stalingrad. General Sikorsky and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin plan an agreement for mutual defense. Two flags flying from flag poles. Polish troops stand at attention. Soviet or Polish troops march. Soviet troops at battle stations in a field. Soviet tank corps men run out and jump into their tanks. A tank goes out through a city near Moscow. Battle action during winter shows Soviet troops advancing to meet on coming Germans. A large gun mounted on a railroad (RR) car. A Soviet officer gives a signal to fire guns. All types of artillery-guns mounted on RR cars, armored trains, tanks field artillery, large cannon fire. Several buildings being demolished by shell blasts. Tanks advance. The Soviets advance across snow covered terrain. Soviet civilians gather up German equipment and pile it around in the area. Dead Germans on the ground. Destroyed German mechanized equipment. Observation towers and lookout posts commanded by the Soviets.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070871
Soviet Union military and civilians mobilize for war against Nazi Germany during World War 2

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin addresses the people of the Soviet Union during World War II. Men, women, and children listen to the speakers broadcasting the speech made by Stalin. “This war is not an ordinary war! It is the war of the entire Russian people.” the narrator translates Stalin’s speech. A printing press prints Russian newspapers. Man distributes newspapers. Russian men riding horses. Patriotic Russian men marching into a town to enlist in the war effort. Women plastering Soviet propaganda posters. Women and children trained for military tactics. A short-haired Russian woman tests a rifle. Boys use pickaxes in mining. A woman joins the Soviet Army. A female factory worker works with a lathe. An elderly Russian man harvesting wheat. A locomotive train driving. A woman piloting a ship. Women driving tractors. Women carry large sacks on their backs. Russian soldiers taking a metal bedframe. Farmers raising cattle. Houses, factories, and other infrastructure destroyed by fire and dynamite by Russians themselves. View of the Dniepropetrovsk dam in Ukraine. Russians blow up the Dniepropetrovsk Hydroelectric Station to prevent it from falling to Nazi hands. A woman torches her house. Farmers produce in fields. An old man with rifle watches sky for Nazi bombers. Burning houses and villages due to Soviet scorched earth policies. Guerrilla units trained and they march. Guerrilla soldiers with rifles. Men and women Soviet guerrilla soldiers talking. Soviet men hide in the bush. Guerrilla soldiers push down a telegraph post. A burning train. Guerrilla fighters shoot down German soldier. A burning oil depot. Exploding Nazi installations such as bridges, buildings, and warehouses. Russian guerrilla soldiers fire with machine guns. Animated map depicting Nazi German forces stopping outside Moscow. The Kremlin in Moscow. Fresh reserves of the Soviet Red Army march in Moscow.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036934
Body of Stalin lying in State. Soviet citizens in Red Square. Body of Stalin carried into Lenin's Tomb; earlier scenes of Stalin visiting Lenin tomb

Embalming laboratory in Moscow, Russia. A technician works with chemicals. Scene changes to funeral of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Embalmed body of Joseph Stalin, Lying in State. Mourners gathered to pay homage to Joseph Stalin. Women weep. A large crowd of civilians gathered at Red Square. Men carry Stalin's body in a coffin to Lenin's Tomb, where it lies, next to the body of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Llyich Lenin, preserved in the tomb. Views from years prior of Joseph Stalin descending stairs and leaving after visiting tomb of Vladimir Lenin. Brief scenes of a Soviet chemical laboratory with many vials, flask, and beakers, and a scientist or chemist at work in the lab. Scenes of Soviet citizens waiting in line to file into the tombs of Lenin and Stalin.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675073456
Soviet aerobatic team pilots board supersonic fighter aircraft and perform in airshow

Soviet aerobatic team pilots synchronizing watches and donning their flight helmets during the 1962 Soviet Aviation Day Display at Tushino Airfield (present day Otkrytie Bank Arena, Volokolamskoye Shosse, 69, Moscow, Russia, 125424) near Moscow, Soviet Union. The Soviet aerobatic team pilots boarding Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO reporting name: Fishbed) supersonic fighter aircraft. A military officer helps a pilot board the aircraft. Three MiG-21 supersonic fighters, three MiG-19 (NATO reporting name: Farmer) supersonic fighters and three Sukhoi Su-17 (NATO reporting name: Fitter) in takeoff climbs to left. Three Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO reporting name: Fishpot) fighters in takeoff climbs to left. Four Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name: Bear) bombers taking off to left. A Tupolev Tu-95 with “40” marking taking off. Another Tupolev Tu-95 taking off is seen armed with Kangaroo stand-off missile in bomb bay. Soviet military officials and dignitaries watch the airshow from the reviewing stand. A Tupolev Tu-95 bomber and seven MiG-19 supersonic fighters in flyover. Posters of Vladimir Lenin and prominent Soviet figures and red flags adorn a building. Squadron of supersonic fighters and missile carrying bombers in flight as Soviet military officials watch the airshow.

Date: 1962
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080401