Senate-Watergate hearings on presidential campaign activities of Richard Nixon in elections of 1972, Washington DC. Senator Sam Ervin Junior, Chairman of Select Committee arrives and takes chairman seat in the hall. Other staff members take their seats. He discusses with other jury members. Senator Truman Campbell called for cross examination. He repeats a pledge after Senator Ervin, a lawyer starts questioning him about Nixon's Presidential election campaign of 1972. He answers in detail about the events in campaign rallies. Jury members, staff members and press reporters inside the hall
U.S. President Richard Nixon's address to the nation about Watergate case from the White House, Washington DC. President Nixon speaks about his campaign's wrong-doings in 1972 elections and condemns them. He asserts that such abuses won't take place in future. He condemns the practices during his campaign in 1972 presidential elections.
Allied warships move towards North Africa during World War 2. A sailor on a destroyer monitors sonar indicating presence of a submarine. A sailor looks through a pair of binoculars and another sailor nearby has a pair of headphones. Loudspeaker signals call to general quarters. Sailors rush up the stairs. Numerous depth charges are launched and explode in the water. Next, a wide oil slick on the surface indicates the submarine has been struck by the depth charges. An officer looks through a pair of binoculars. A man speaks into a radio. Soldiers amuse themselves on a troop ship. One plays the piano and others playing play cards, read novel while eating an apple. Flags of Major General Patton and Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt aboard the USS Augusta (CA-31) off the coast of North Africa. Semaphore flags and signal lights communicate between ships. Soldier with 'map of West Africa' in his back pocket. Two soldiers read a language guide. An animated map detailing Plan Acrobat to invade North Africa. Map includes Casablanca, Algiers, Tripoli, and Libya. Soldiers exercise, peel potatoes and relax on a troop ship. Clothes hung on a line. British soldiers write letters home. A soldier pastes news on a bulletin board. The bulletin announces that the 'German Afrika Corps' are in full retreat. Night time aerial views of bombing of cities in Italy. Narrator states the bombing included Naples, Genoa, and Turin. Explosions and smoke on the ground below from the bombing. Aerial view of daylight bombing at lower altitude of a Renault tank factory. Submarine on surface at twilight. Eighth Army plane. General Eisenhower, General Mark Clark and French General Giraud. Night scene. Soldiers on the deck. German WWII headquarters at night with guards in Rome and at the The Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Hitler at Berghof . German switchboard, terminal, and radio communications. Messages passed between Allied ships via signal light and ship-to-ship cargo transfer. ( Note The Operation Acrobat discussed in this film is misleading. That plan was scrapped, and the Allied North African campaign was conducted as part of Operation Torch.)
Led by an African guide, an ox-wagon travels in the savannahs of Africa. Various scenes showing natural savannah, lake, acacia and baobab trees in Africa. Maps of Europe, India, China and Australia are superimposed over Africa to give a comparative measurement of the continent. Savannah and hills in Africa. Dramatization. Zulu warriors emerge from savanna grass to attack a neighboring tribe. Tribes people run away from Zulu warriors. Zulu warriors breach through tribe’s mud walls. Tribesman shoots an arrow. Tribesman uses smoking wood to poke through mud wall and attack invading warriors. Tribesmen run and hide from invading warriors. A warrior snatches a baby from mother. Livestock, cattle and goats, run away from warriors. Zulu warriors walk out of the besieged village with captured villagers. Two children hide from warriors in grass. Captured villagers are made to sit by invaders. An African man with wooden slave yoke. African villagers are fitted into wooden slave yokes and chains. An African mother breastfeeds her baby. African warriors force the captured villagers to watch their village burn. An African man cowers in fear, his wrists are bound together with rope. Newly captured African villagers, in wooden slave yokes, along with ivory elephant tusks, walk a straight line while following a Zulu warrior.
The 1972 Olympic Summer Games in Munich, Germany. Arriving athletes walk along a path toward their lodgings. Large multistory apartment houses seen in background. Flags fly in front of a large building. Colorful sign points to it as the Olympic Village. Traffic moves along street.
View of the "Olympic Village" during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Athletes, in civilian clothes, walk about in the garden walkways of the village, where they are housed. A small banner, labeled USA, hangs from one apartment balcony. Another,larger banner, reads: "U.S.A. Cycling. Track-Road Olympic Team. Its great to be part of the best. Go Harder."The banner is topped with 4 small American flags.