During the timeframe of the Dies Committee hearings, under Representative Martin Dies, regarding the suppression of the American Communist Party. A U.S. newspaper headline: "Trotsky Seeks to Come Here for 'Fair Trial'. Friends of exiled Red back move to have his side of alleged plot known." (exiled from Soviet Union.) View of Russian-Ukrainian political leader Leon Trotsky reading aloud the text of a pamphlet. Bricked wall in the background.
Mexican Rurales unit demonstrates a mounted charge on a field. They charge toward the camera and then away from the camera. (Edison Company, 1898)
Farmers harvesting corn in a Mexican countryside. A spotted cow stands beside the farmers. A Mexican woman and her daughter walk together in the field. A farmer walks beside a donkey carrying a girl with baskets beside a road in Mexican countryside. People traveling beside a road in Mexican countryside. A woman rides a donkey with baskets. A Mexican farmer, wearing a white hat, beats fiber out of a plant, possibly agave, ‘henequen’. A blond tourist, wearing a black sheath dress, pets a puppy nearby.
A Church in view. People with covered heads shop in the vegetable market. Vendors sit in shade. Jeeps and cars on a road. A man passes by a pyramid. Crowd in a busy street.
Russian politician Mihail Ivanovic Kalinin together with members of his office staff works with persons presenting documents that he inspects. He inspects papers from a man and converses at length with him. Kalinin at his desk with papers, and at a podium speaking, with handful of papers. In separate scene, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in plain brown uniform, addresses a group of similarly dressed men.
Study in which Trotsky was attacked by Ramon Mercader. A wounded Ramon Mercader in hospital bed. Close up of a knife found at the scene. Journalists and police gathered to hear the latest news. Leon Trotsky dying in hospital bed. An ambulance leaves police headquarters. A crowd peering through metal gates. A gathering of photographers with cameras. (World War II period).