A British soldier reads the war news to people in France. Houses in the village. Local people gather around to hear the news.
A loose formation of German Junkers Ju 87 aircraft (Stuka dive bombers) take off from a rugged field and camera tracks them as they fly overhead in World War 2.. Several Dornier DO 17 bombers are seen flying at low altitude with landing gears extended in vicinity of an airport. View from cockpit aft at the pontoon on a German Navy Heinkel He 59 float plane creating a wake in water during takeoff. Another He 59 float plane is taking off in the background. Brief view from overflying aircraft of a German torpedo boat racing in water below. Several Heinkel He 59 float planes in an extremely tight formation in flight. The pilot of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E climbs into its cockpit and prepares to depart. The side of his aircraft depicts a "weeping crow with umbrella," the logo of I Gruppe of the Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader fighter wing. Next, several Me Bf 109s are seen taking off from an airfield. View from the side, followed by view of them heading straight toward the camera, and raising their landing gears as they pass overhead. A church building is seen in the background. Several Heinkel 111 bombers are silhouetted as they take off from and airfield. Aerial view from above of Dornier 217 bombers flying over agricultural region of farms. View of crew member in nose of a Dornier 217 flying in formation with others. The pilot at the aircraft's controls. View from cockpit of other aircraft in the formation. Camera focuses again on the pilot at the controls, and other aircraft in the formation.
Japanese people sit outside shacks in Tokyo, Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. Flimsy homes in the background with rugs, bedding, and laundry hung out on the house in the sun. Japanese people living in poverty amid rubble. Woman squats on ground and washes dishes using water from a pump well. Other family members help wash dishes that are laid out on the ground. Two young boy children are seen in the bombed out ruins, and operating a water pump.
British women working during World War 1. A remount depot for breeding, training, and outfitting animals for military use. British women workers load hay with pitchforks and cut chaff in a barn of a remount depot. A British Army soldier works with the women workers. Women workers fill chaff into bags.
A pro Betancourt rally in Venezuela. Crowds gathered with signage against Fidel Castro and in support of Romulo Betancourt. Betancourt addresses the crowds from a podium on a stage, outdoors. A man sitting looking at a radio tower. Images of radio control equipment and sign wave signatures on a scope. Scenes of protest and rioting in a Latin American or South American city. Police combating demonstrators. Vehicles overturned. Citizens running through the streets. Crowds being sprayed by fire hoses from moving fire trucks. Close up views of a newspaper "La Prensa" indicating Fidel Castro's support of the Communist party in Peru. Headline, "Fidel Castro Financia al partido comunista Peruano." An inside headline from the same paper reads, "La Embajada de Cuba Distribuye Propaganda Subversica en el Peru" indicating that an Ambassador from Cuba distributed anti-government, subversive propaganda en Peru. What follows are a series of images drawing parallels between Castro and other fascist historical leaders. Castro speaking forcefully, then a cut to historical excerpts from speeches by Hitler and Goebels in Germany during World War II. A scene with Hitler speaking and gesticulating wildly and forcefully, followed by a scene with Castro doing the same. A wooden sign with skull and crossbones and the words "HALT! STOJ!" on it. Prisoners in a German Nazi concentration camp, thin, weary, and huddled near a barb wire perimeter fence circa early 1945. Nikita Khrushchev on a review stand waving his hat to Soviet Army forces marching below him carrying guns with bayonets fixed. Chinese citizen-military forces (possibly early Red Guard) at a rally, with young women and young men raising rifles in the air . Soviet Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev shaking hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. A group of Chinese workers digging ditches, including men and women Chinese workers. Still image of Khrushchev and Castro embracing. An anti-communist rally in Cuba.
"Making Steel for War" shows powered shovel digging iron ore out of an open pit mine. After obtaining the Iron Ore ,it is crushed and shipped to steel mills. Countless open railroad cars filled with iron ore in a marshalling yard. Iron ore being loaded into an ore carrier ship. The ship carrying the Iron Ore reaches its destination, where huge cranes with claw buckets reach in and remove the iron ore from the ship. View of steel mill complex including rail yard, furnaces, and numerous structures. Powered shovel digging limestone out of open pit mine and loading it on to conveyer. Coal being discharged from coking ovens and bursting into flames when it contacts the open air. .
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