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Host Alexander speaks about increasing number of refugees and interview with Victor Henry Palmieri, Europe.

The plight of South East Asian refugees, with focus on role of international organizations in Europe. Host Alexander speaks about increasing number of refugees since 1975. Victor Palmieri, U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, is interviewed. He speaks about international aid to keep refugees alive. Camp area of refugees. Refugees are sent to other camps of other countries. Refugees in camp. Alexander speaks about that lucky refugees who are resettled into US, China, Canada, Australia and France and others remain in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Date: 1980
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071914
U.S. propaganda film during WW2, "Know Your Ally: Britain" showing war battle scenes and scenes of life in England

'Know Your Ally: Britain' - An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi German propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance during World War II. Scenes in the United States of a college football game as a player makes a touchdown and a crowd erupts in loud cheering. Football team at blocking and tackling practice on a practice field. A World War 2 tank fires. British and American soldiers fire artillery and infantry forces running on a battlefield. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Views of soldiers of China, Russia, Britain and the United States. Allied troops march. Idaho, United States and Britain on a map showing population. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians on a road including cars and double-decker buses and pedestrians showing congested space in Britain. People talk to their neighbors. British policemen seen. British citizens emerge from underground transit system. Groups of British men, women and children in crowds are seen. Image of British Bobby police officer with hand up and narrator relates that British police do not carry a gun. Newspaper headlines about a strike, a catastrophe in Britain. Animated map of the Great Britain shows that it is surrounded by sea. Ships at sea. An old man and a boy sitting on a stoop with a model of a tall masted sailing ship. Brief views of cities in different parts of the world, including Sydney Australia; an unidentified South African port; an aerial view of the city of Wellington, New Zealand; parliament and government buildings in Ottawa, Canada; a large passenger ferry boat passing by with the skyscrapers of Manhattan New York City in the background.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072087
Animation and footage depict American strategies to attack the Nazis in the European Theater during World War II.

A film about U.S. response to the activities of the Axis powers Italy, Germany and Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall praises the United States Military offensives in Europe and Africa. George Marshall narrates rest of the clip. Animation of a globe depicts the Allied forces in the middle east planning to isolate China and Russia. The animation depicts the German Forces crossing the British allies, joining Japan and then attacking America. It depicts U.S. plans to stop the collaboration of Germany and Japan. Scenes of American shipyards are shown, with workers building new war ships. Some workers welding. A sign reads, "Work must continue during launching. Positively." The animation depicts the shorter routes to the European Theater. Aerial footage of a large fleet of U.S. Navy Ships at sea, underway during World War 2. Next scenes shows smoke pouring from ships at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii following attack by Japan. View of Soviet Russian horse cavalry forces charging toward enemy German positions during a battle in World War 2. Scenes of Allied artillery being fired at night in North Africa. Animation depicts the need to establish American air bases closer to Japan before launching successful air attacks. Footage of U.S. soldiers running out of landing crafts and coming ashore at a beach head during World War 2. Animation depicts U.S. plan to defeat Japan. Animation depicts strong German Army. Animation depicts U.S. plan to defeat the Nazi and the Fascist power in Europe.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067218
Men get inducted and trained for war in the United States along with the UN army preparations during World War 2

Draftees are trained for army in the United States during World War II. A U.S. officer recruits men for army. Men including farmers, fishermen, clerks and factory workers walk in lines. Men run on ground with wooden guns as they undergo training. Men drive trucks. Men learn to load guns. The draftees are inducted and trained. Men from different United Nations member countries including America, Russia, China, German, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Dutch, Philippines and French get trained and prepared for war.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067752
American soldiers training ARVN during the Vietnam War.

Opening scene shows American soldiers exiting a helicopter and wading through water during the Vietnam War. Next, Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam's leader, poses with Mao Tse-tung (or Zedong), the leader of the Communist People's Repbulic of China. Ho Chi Minh on a reviewing stand with unidentified high ranking communist military officer. Shadows of Viet Cong running to attack a village. A straw-roofed building being torched. Village people fleeing. Anti-communist volunteers training. Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in camouflage arrive in a truck convoy and begin offensive against Viet Cong (VC). A shell explodes nearby. ARVN taking up defensive positions firing recoiless rifle and Browning M1917 machine gun. American and ARVN soldier with a VC prisoner, whose head has been bandaged. ARVN being trained in use of a mortar.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067936
Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Winston Churchill,Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin at different events in different continents.

Life of the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt is greeted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference for signing of the Atlantic Charter off Newfoundland in 1941. The ship approaches the harbor. Soldiers present arms aboard a ship. Prime Minister Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt talk. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses congress members after the Pearl Harbor attack. The President signs a document. President Roosevelt reviews troops in Casablanca. The troops march. Franklin Roosevelt salutes troops. Vehicles driven in the foreground. Cairo: Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill with the Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Tehran : Franklin D Roosevelt,Winston Churchill and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin pose. United States : The exteriors of the White House. People enter White House. President Franklin Roosevelt with Vice President Harry S. Truman at the 1945 inaugural ceremony. Yalta : President Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin pose. Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a conference. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068118