Activities at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington DC, on Memorial Day, 1956. A sign on base gatehouse reads "Bolling Air Force Base". Numerous cars enter the base for the activities. Aircraft parked for static display at the Bolling Air Force Base. A C-119 aircraft on taxi strip. A large crowd of civilians walk among the aircraft. A line of visitors waits to board a B-36 bomber.They climb up a ramp set by the cockpit. A girl walks under the belly of the B-36. A sign by a jet aircraft identifies it as an F-101 Voodoo fighter.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Stalinist government in Hungary. Civilians, police and military mingling amiably. Hungarian Communist Leader, Janos Kadar enters a car with an Army General. Civilians walk around a Soviet tank in a market. Hungarian soldiers stand on roads and talk to each other. Animated map shows flow of Soviet Forces surrounding Budapest to put down the insurrection. Soviet tanks firing point blank into buildings. Fires raging. A radio announcer is seen at a center from which multilingual broadcasts are being made about the events in Budapest. A technician in broadcast center. Speaker labeled "Hungarian." Brief view of UN meeting in New York. Revolutionaries fire on Soviets from remnants of destroyed buildings. Damaged Soviet tank. Hungarian National flags fly over abandoned litters in a small park. Dead revolutionary in a coffin being transported for burial in a cemetery. Some snow on the ground. People in various parts of the world express sympathy for the Hungarian insurrectionists. Black wreathes are hung. Youth in West Berlin, Germany, carry banner calling for Freedom for Hungary. Supportive demonstrations in Vietnam, France, and Italy. Black wreathes are placed in Poland.
1956 Royal Film Performance at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, London, England (of the motion picture, "The Battle of the River Plate"). British and Hollywood celebrities arriving at the Empire Theatre (Leicester Square London, WC2 United Kingdom) for the event. Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe (Miller) accompanied by her husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, pass through the foyer. Hollywood actress Joan Crawford arrives with her husband, Alfred Steele (CEO of Pepsi-Cola). Queen Elizabeth II arrives followed by Princess Margaret. Reginald Bromhead, chairman of the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund, introduces Queen Elizabeth II of England to stars, including Marilyn Monroe with Victor Mature standing on her left. A grandson of Mr. Bromhead offers flowers to the Queen.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Pedestrians along a road in Budapest, Hungary. Debris on a field. Soviet vehicles on a street. A resistance fighter dismantles the Communist Red Star on the top of a building near the National Museum, in the Kalvin Square (Budapest, Kálvin tér 12, 1088 Hungary). Derailed trams in front of the Hungarian National Museum. Hungarian civilians look on. Interiors of a damaged building. Civilians gather along a street.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Hungarian resistance fighters aim guns towards Soviet positions in Budapest, Hungary. Soviet soldiers standing near a loudspeaker. Exteriors of a building. Wreckage of vehicles in the city.
Hungarian rebels in crowd during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Hungarian rebels with Hungarian soldiers in Budapest. Damaged buildings in Budapest. A devastated street car in Budapest after the Hungarian Revolution. Abandoned Soviet military vehicle, equipment and tank in Budapest. Hungarians curiously observe the tank. Hungarian freedom fighters, with rifles, patrol Budapest. Piles of blocks in road near apartment buildings in Budapest. Russian tanks roll in Budapest, returning to the Hungarian Revolution with more reinforcements. Soviet military vehicles pouring into Andrassy Avenue, Budapest. Hungarians cross a river and walk to the Austrian border. Hungarian refugee smokes a cigarette. A Hungarian couple kiss and laugh together. Two hundred thousand Hungarian refugees trekking towards the temporary refugee shelters in Austria. Austrian border control. Hungarian refugees flee with their luggage and bicycles, hoping to make it to countries that could accept them such as England, France, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the United States.