Statue of Liberty. Picnic for union workers. Sign reads, "Amalgamated Shirts and Pajama Workers of America, Local 343 Picnic" College graduation ceremony. Americans voting. Signs read, "Polling Place. Stalls open 6 A.M. - Close P.M." and "No Loitering or Electioneering Between This Point and The Poll." A woman enters a curtained voting stall to vote. Aerial view of early U.S. interstate highway exchange. Suburban neighborhood development in California, with elevated view of houses in suburbs. A pastor performs a wedding ceremony in a church. An American family picnics on bank of a stream. Students at a U.S. college campus. Parishioners coming out of a church. U.S. Congress in session. U.S. Capitol building exterior with tree branches. In contrast: Military parade in Communist East Germany, with tanks. A sign reads: "Peace, Prosperity, good fortune" (in German). Civil unrest in various countries, possibly Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian revolution in Hungary in 1956: People during a riot or demonstration and a city bus is seen crashing through trees and into a building on a busy downtown city street; Street riots; protest gatherings. Contrasting scenes: Peaceful U.S. metropolitan street scene; Farmer plowing field with tractor; Cowboys herding steers; driver in tanker truck with "Cyclone Rocket" logo on the door, welders at a shipyard.
Soldiers guard a group of Korean refugees during the Korean War. The refugees sit on the ground. Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor Street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Burned and abandoned tanks along Andrassy Avenue. Newspaper article titled “Khrushchev Hails New African States”. United States President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural speech from the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. “We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” President Kennedy said.
Hungarian airplane seized by students defecting from Soviet Hungary, is seen on the ground in West Germany. Interiors of the wrecked airplane following the struggle on board between defecting Hungarian students and other Soviet loyalist passengers. The aircraft landed on a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) airstrip after a mid air battle. Officials inspect the airplane. Security officer investigates and collects weapons. Photographers take pictures. Doctor attends wounded Hungarian students who reached freedom outside Communist Hungary.
Demonstrations on streets during the Hungarian Revolution in Hungary. People march on a street with banners in hand. A banner reads 'Hungarian Heroes who died for Freedom', 'We Are the Crusadrs for Freedom for All'.
Hungarian revolution against Soviets. Aerial views of empty streets. Citizens burn Communist flags, views of burning houses. Citizens barricades erected with paving stones, and street car. Dead body of Soviet soldier, with photograph of Mátyás Rákosi covering his face. Huge signs and banner comparing the Hungarian revolution against the Habsburg monarchy in 1848 to the present revolution against the Soviets in 1956. Soviet tanks, burnt books and Soviet soldiers on roads.
Civilians and dignitaries greet soldiers after Hungary attains its freedom from Russian domination. Tanks and trucks of Russian army. Debris of battle on roads in Budapest. A damaged house and furniture. Hungarian martyr's of revolution burial ceremony, as men and women weep.