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Allied National Leaders hold numerous conferences to plan and coordinate their efforts during World War II

First scene shows President Harry Truman shaking hands with Joseph Stalin on a porch of the Cecilienhof ( home of Crown Prince Wilhelm) in Potsdam, Germany. The two leaders are accompanied by their respective foreign ministers, James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin descends steps from the building followed by Truman. View of the back lawn at Cecilienhof. View of its front entrance. Various views of the house and grounds. American, Soviet, and British flags flying from the building. Cars carrying the leaders on road to the Cecilienhof. President Truman and James Byrnes entering outside gate, followed by other attendees. Then Stalin is seen entering followed by Soviet officers and officials. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in Europea and U.S. Army Chief of Staff. George Marshall are seen walking together in a wooded glade on the meeting grounds. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, entering the grounds for the meeting. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin stand on a step before an entrance to Cecilienhof. Truman places their hands together in a mutual handshake, at which Churchill and Stalin laugh. Views of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia where foreign minsters of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union are seen meeting meeting in conference at the Spiridonovka Palace in October, 1943. Closeup of Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, and U.S. Secretary of State, Warren Hull, successively signing a document. Scene shifts, to a C-47 transport aircraft flying over great pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Next, the front of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran, is shown. The "Big Three" (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill) sit on the porch of the building. Military officers from their countries stand behind them. Narrator (Franklin D. Roosevelt) says they agreed to launch a gigantic attack on Germany. Scene shifts to Germany, where German military is paraded on public display, showing artillery, Panzer I tanks carried aboard army trucks, Heinkel He 111 bombers in formation overhead, and marching troops giving Nazi salute silhouetted against bright pavement. View shifts to the Livadia Palace, in Yalta, Crimea, Russia. Brief view of the "Big Three" and their staffs sitting around a conference table. Change of location to San Francisco, California, where flags of many nations are displayed along with a United Nations Logo. Representatives of the many nations sign the Charter of the United Nations, founding the U.N. organization on 26 June 1945. Film shifts to Germany where victorious American, British and Soviet troops shake hands and celebrate victory. They share drinks and toast victory.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069647
German Wehrmacht Generals and their forces surrender in Soviet Union after the Battle of Stalingrad (WW2)

Soviet troops in fierce fighting with German forces at Stalingrad in World War 2. They fire numerous artillery field pieces. Soviet infantry stooping low as they advance. Soviet soldiers firing machine gun.Soviet infantry advancing in courtyard of apartment building, past body of fallen German soldier. German troops abandoning a concrete building behind one carrying a white flag of surrender. German Generals surrendering, walk past body of a fallen Soviet soldier on the frozen ground. German Lieutenant General Alexander Edler von Daniels, Commander of the German 376th Division, salutes as he surrenders. German Lieutenant General Werner Sanne, Commander of the German 100th Jäger Division, is seen in White winter gear, as he walks to surrender. Romanian Brigadier General Demetriou, Commander of the 20th Romanian Infantry, salutes as he surrenders. Five more German generals standing in a group. Closeup of German XIV Corps commander, General Helmuth Schloemer(Schlömer). Lieutenant General Max Pfeffer, Commander, German 297th Infantry Division. Lieutenant General Renoldi, Medical Chief of the 6th German Army. German Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, commander of all Axis forces at Stalingrad, is seen stepping from a staff car and entering the wooden building headquarters of Soviet General N. Shumilov, commander of the 64th Soviet Army. He takes a seat at a table surrounded with by Soviet officers and listens as Shumilov reviews his record. Scene changes to regular German Wehrmacht (Army) troops, outdoors in the cold, along with some of their officers. Long lines of surrendered German soldiers making their way in the snow down slopes and up hills, on their way to POW camps. View of German prisoner lacking adequate footwear during the march. The Red Soviet flag being waved from balcony of a tall building, as line of German prisoners of war proceed below. The line extends as far as can be seen. (Note: At TC: 00:27-39 an apartment house and courtyard is seen in Stalingrad South. As of 2015, it is reported to be the House of Specialists for the Hydrolytic Plant, and still stands west of the intersection of Barrikadnaya & Rozlovskaya Streets.)

Date: 1943, January 31
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033497
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
Soviet and German forces battle in Bryansk, sustaining heavy damage during WW2

Soviet military officers use an artillery telescope with camera at Bryansk front battlefield during World War 2. Seen from a camera, German soldiers retreat from a burning tank, running away from Soviet firing. Explosion in the battlefield. A Soviet soldier carries his injured comrade on his back in the middle of a battle. A German soldier killed in battle. Soviet guerrilla soldiers read map, load ammunition on small artillery. A Soviet guerilla soldier firing with rifle behind bushes. Artillery hits the city of Bryansk, which sustained heavy damage during its liberation from Nazi Germany. Artillery shell hits a house, exploding it. Soviet troops with guns advance through the city of Bryansk. Soviet infantry troops firing with rifles. Soviet troops engage in urban warfare to drive out German forces from Bryansk. Soviet troops enter a ruined building. A Soviet soldier firing with rifle from a house window. Soviet soldiers climb stairs. A Soviet soldier places a flag of victory on the window of a building. An unmarked (assumedly red) flag in Bryansk after its liberation from German forces.

Date: 1943, September 17
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079154
Exchange of cultures and collaboration in science and arts between the Soviet Union and the United States

The Moscow summit between the U.S. and USSR in Moscow, Russia. Wyeth family artwork being packed in boxes for a visit to the Soviet Union. Various paintings being packed up. In exchange, some Russian paintings and artwork seen that will be displayed in America. General Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev visits the United States during Glasnost efforts amid Perestroika reforms. People on the streets in what appears to be New York or possibly Washington DC are surprised when he exits his motorcade to shake hands directly with American citizens gathered on the sidewalks.The U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and his wife visiting Soviet Georgia and being greeted by Soviet citizens. Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan side by side at a summit in Washington DC. They stand together on the White House lawn as a band plays. Animation depicts the sharing of cultures between the two nations and the exchange of magazines. View of American rock star Billy Joel and his band performing at a concert in the Soviet Union on New Year's eve. A Moiseyev Dance Company folk troupe from Russia performing a dance in the United States. Cultural exchange between the two countries includes views of a piano performance by Vladimir Horowitz in Moscow and a ballet performance in the United States by the Bolshoi Ballet. Several Russian school children pose for pictures on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Soviet teenage children enjoy a elevated ropes course in an outdoor program. People sit in an amphitheater with officials at a Chautaqua Talk in 1987. A group of Soviet citizens view a touring "Information USA" exhibit in the Soviet Union that presents American culture. They view the program on an array of television monitors. A young Russian boy speaks in Russian about his interest in learning about American culture. People watch a science exhibition. Astronauts of the USA (NASA) and Soviet Union in a spacecraft. The astronauts open a connecting hatch and shake hands (possibly on a space station). Narrator describes collaboration of the two nations to monitor and study the depleting ozone layer of the earth and how to protect it. A man is shown sunbathing. Officials of the America and the Soviet Union sign an agreement relating to sharing information about safety of nuclear power plants. Soviet representatives and George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of State, inaugurate a new communication system that communicates nuclear dangers between the two countries. A woman in the communication room. Food grain pouring from a harvester, part of what is supplied to the Soviets. Soviet Union tanks and soldiers in Afghanistan. Soviet soldiers walking on a street in Afghanistan in front of a shop. Arrested American journalist Nicholas Daniloff disembarks an aircraft after his release. View of the exterior of the American Embassy in Russia. U.S. marine Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree being escorted under guard after having been accused of collaborating in a Soviet spy mission at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Scene inside a Voice of America radio broadcast studio. Sign indicates it is broadcasting in Russian. Close up of meter moving on a radio instrument during the broadcast. Dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem performing before their visit to the Soviet Union. A group of Soviet citizens including men, women and children walking outdoors. Mikhail Gorbachev with U.S. President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony on the White House grounds on December 8, 1987.

Date: 1987
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032115
Women making ammunition, tanks, and materiel in Soviet Union during WW2

A USSR woman writes to American women to speak about the importance of Soviet women participation in war efforts during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Hands writing a letter. A Soviet war production factory for war materiel manufacturing in Ural Mountains. Overhead crane moving inside factory. Molten metal inside factory foundry ladles. Factory workers shoveling coal into foundry furnace. A hot steel bar rolls on factory assembly line. Soviet women working in mines, swinging pick axes at mine wall. Russian woman operating a lathe. A Soviet woman assembles a gun stock. A Soviet woman, with a short Pixie cut hairstyle, aims a newly made rifle. Woman puts gun onto assembly line. Women make artillery shells. Rows of high explosive bombs, tanks, Howitzer artillery, made by Soviet women in factories.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079158