Documentary film 'Refugees Return Home' Yugoslavian and Greek refugees leave for home from Sanai Desert in Egypt. Yugoslavian and Greek men, women and children refugees at the camp. They depart in trucks. Refugees board the train which then proceeds towards the Egyptian Coast. Refuges embark the liner Tripolitania with baggages. Tripolitania arrives at Yugoslavia. Friends and relatives wave out to the refugees on board. An old woman disembarks carrying heavy baggage on her back. Red Cross nurses help people. Refugees get back home with their luggage on donkeys. Refugees meet their family members.
American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States, during World War II. Duties of grocery store owner Sam Rankin, also includes that of the Air Raid Warden. Sam Rankin speaks with a couple on the street. Flashback scene to United States Army troops marching in formation in France during World War 1. Sam demonstrates how to tie a sling on a broken arm to a family in the city. The Air Raid Warden undergoes training from the fire department. Certificate given to Sam Rankin by the United States Government.
American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States, during World War 2. Team members report to Air Raid Warden Sam Rankin. Sam receives the Yellow Alert message over phone. He dons his uniform with civil defense armband and goes to work on Blue Alert. Police cars help to get automobiles off the road. People get out of a bus and head to a nearby shelter. Family inside a blackout room listens to radio. Women switchboard operators seen connecting calls in a telephone switchboard room. Burners turned off on gas stove. Sam Rankin reports the Report and Control Center about the bombing. The message is passed to various departments including police and fire departments. Fire engines depart from fire station. Civilian defense nurse, trained by the Red Cross, is seen in a hospital preparing supplies. Her uniform includes on her left arm a civilian defense patch with a red cross in the middle. A man plots damaged areas on a large map. The alarm is sounded and a view of the alarm horn device is seen.
Italian King Emmanuel III and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini greet German leader Adolf Hitler in Rome, Italy during World War II. Italian King Emmanuel III and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini stand at a railroad station. A train arrives on the station. Prime Minister Mussolini and King Emmanuel II welcome German leader Adolf Hitler. Number of flags on poles.
The Bialik Hebrew Day School in Neve Shanan, Palestine. Interior of a classroom. Children seated at desk in the classroom. Teacher writes on the blackboard. Children read and listen to the teacher raising hands. They write in their notebooks. Another teacher teaches a class of senior students. He writes in Hebrew on the blackboard. Students read from the blackboard. Photograph on the wall, of Henrietta Szold (founder of Hadassah, a Jewish women's organization of volunteers that promoted education, public health initiatives, and the training of nurses, among other beneficial programs, in Palestine).
Film 'The Road to the Wall' depicts the rise of communism in Russia, Eastern Europe, China and Cuba. Opening scene shows a newly build section of the Berlin Wall, early in its construction period, and a line of German people viewing the newly built wall between East Germany and West Germany. Historical retrospective shows various scenes of refugees in various countries (China; somewhere in Europe) walking on roads and uphill with baggage in hand. Communist troops march. Refugees walk bare foot. Man carrying a child on his back. Huge gathering of people in Moscow at the Kremlin wall (near future site of Lenin's tomb). Vladimir Ilyich Lenin speaks to a crowd in Russia during the Russian Revolution circa 1917. Refugee women and children being checked by soldiers as they attempt to board a railroad train. Closeup of a baby looking frustrated or angry and throwing a baby tantrum. Bodies of dead refugees on the ground. View of Fidel Castro, in January 1959, with Che Guevara, and other rebels or revolutionaries, in Cuba. A person being executed by a Che Guevara revolutionary firing squad. Huge parade in Communist China in 1960. View of Chinese workers manually pulling what appears to be, a heavy gun carriage. Parade of communists in East Germany in 1961. The Berlin wall, and East German policeman on horseback riding to intercept persons attempting to cross. A few East German people making an escape from East Berlin to West Berlin by running through a gap in barbed wire at the Berlin Wall border, and being escorted by West Berlin citizens afterward. Armed East German guards at border marked with barbed wire and other obstacles.
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