'50 Years of Cinematography' depicts the role of military and news cameramen during World War II. Germany starts the War. Invasion of Poland in 1939: German Nazi Luftwaffe bombers in flight over Warsaw. Explosions due to the bombardment. Burning and damaged buildings in the war torn city. Civilians amidst rubble and ruins. Soldiers and civilians look at corpses on a sidewalk. A woman with her child cries. A man walks on a street. Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940: Allied troops evacuated from the Dunkirk coast. Allied troops on ships. Smoke rises from a ship under German attack. Soldiers wade through the water towards waiting ships. Burning ships. The Second Armistice at Compiegne after the German victory in the Battle of France, 1940: German troops stand at attention. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, President of the Reichstag Hermann Goering, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German officers arrive at the venue. The leaders and officers walk past the soldiers at attention. Hitler gives the Nazi salute. The Blitz, London in 1940-1941: Bomb damaged buildings. Cars and pedestrians amidst ruins and rubble on the streets. A train over a collapsed wall. Civilians in a horse cart. A wrecked bus in a damaged building. Rescue workers among the rubble. Clouds over the city.
German troops at the Eastern Front during World War 2. Animated map illustrates Eastern Prussian-Lithuanian border and German troop's movement into Daugavpils. Troops march forward with their vehicles. Soldiers fire artillery and quickly cross the road. Villagers give flowers and waves to the advancing German troops. A soldier on a tank.
German ground offensive in Greece and Southern Yugoslavia during World War II. Soldiers stand near artillery. Artillery lined up on a field. A column of German soldiers moves through Southern Yugoslavia en route to Greece. Soldiers aboard tanks passing through the streets. A bridge is set on fire by them. Serbian prisoners of war are taken.
German Me-109 and Stuka Ju-87 dive bombers take off from an airstrip near the Eastern Front during World War 2. Crews inside German Ju-88 aircraft in flight. Formation of Ju-88. Aerial view of snow-covered target area. German Luftwaffe Ju-88 aircraft drop bombs that explode on ground. Heavy black smoke seen from one strike. Soviet Yak fighter intercepter aircraft engage the bombers. Air-to-ground rockets being fired. Aerial dogfight scenes with air-to-air rockets purportedly striking a Soviet fighter aircraft
German soldiers in Germany during World War 2. A flooded area of the Eastern Front. German soldiers in speed boats. A man steps in a water filled gutter. A wheel with chains. Water up to the level of the axle of the wheel. Trucks skid in mud. A German car moves through very deep mud. A half truck pulls a field piece through mud. German soldiers with horses walk through mud. They fire anti tank guns and mortars through a wooded area.
German troops at the Eastern front during World War II during Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Union. A map of Europe. A bridge. Fire in a village and smoke arises. German troops stand in a group near artillery. They load a shell and fire.. A board reads 'Eydtkau'. Soldiers pulling artillery. German soldiers capture two Soviet soldier prisoners of war. German soldiers advance, as they walk on the street.