Soviet troops fight against the Germans during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union during World War II. Smoke rises from across a river in Stalingrad. Soviet soldiers fire ammunition. They fight against the Germans on the streets of the city. Damaged buildings in the city. Civilians carry their belongings. Smoke rises from buildings. A building on fire at night. T34 tanks advance as explosions occur. German troops surrender and prisoners are made to march. Soviet refugees return to the city. People loaded on a cart as they return to their homes. Civilians in a street as German prisoners march past them.
The Russian Revolution of 1917. Scenes of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I. German soldiers firing at enemy positions. Ill-equipped Russian troops in the field, and suffering from pestilence and disease. A Russian soldier wearing no shirt and with no equipment is seen scratching at itches on his own body. Starving, sad Russian children are shown back in Russia. Scenes of St Petersburg, Russia in March 1917, during demonstrations for increased bread rations. Responding Russian troops defect and join demands for the transfer of power from the Czar to an elected parliament. A military vehicle loaded with troops is seen rallying and celebrating with Russian people. Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky speaks to a large crowd. Czar Nicholas II, who has abdicated, sitting on a stump, with a few guards behind him. Political prisoners are freed from prisons. Leon Trotsky, speaking from a train platform, upon his return from exile in Canada. Summer, 1917, and Alexander Kerensky becomes Head of the Russian Provisional Government. Kerensky, standing in the balcony of a building, proclaims Russia a republic. A large crowd gathered outside the building. Vladimir Lenin speaking to a large crowd on the Kerensky Republic. View of Farmer workers with shovels in a field. Lenin and Trotsky call for the members of the Farmer Worker Army Union Soviet to work against the Kerensky Republic. View of Lenin speaking against the Republic and for class warfare. Lenin's Bolsheviks riot and seize the railroad stations, telegraph lines, and government offices. A tower column of the Russian monarchy is seen falling to the ground. Events on November 25 after the Russian Revolution: A number of people on a street during elections called for by Kerensky. View of Lenin talking to people in the streets. Lenin's Bolshevik group loses to the SR party. People in the streets near the time of the election. The elected assembly of the Socialist Revolutionary Party is seen meeting under the protection of Trotsky's Red Army which is seen marching near a crowd. Catherine Breshkovsky is seen standing and speaking at the assembly meeting. The elected assembly in session. The assembly refuses to turn power over to the Lenin Soviet. The members of the elected assembly are seen finally giving in to the Bolsheviks and the factions of the SR that have split to support the Bolsheviks. The leaders of the defeated faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR) are seen leaving the grounds of the assembly. In the next scene, a crowd protests against the dismissal of the elected assembly, to no avail.. Lenin speaking to a large crowd. He speaks about the power won and maintained by violence. Views of the demonstrating crowd.
Interviews of the rescued U.S. prisoners of war at the 118th General Hospital in Leyte, Philippine islands during World War II. U.S. Army man Walter O. French from Hardy, Arkansas being interviewed regarding his experiences as a prisoner. Walter O. French shares his experience.
Nazi spies involved in Operation Pastorius are tried in the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington DC. The exteriors of the Supreme Court of the United States. The captured would-be saboteurs are taken to the Court in armored paddy wagons to be tried for espionage, attempted sabotage, and treason. View of the accused riding in the vans, and the vans entering near court building. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent digs with a shovel on sand beaches in Long Island, New York, to find explosives stored there by the spies. FBI agent shows the incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine. An FBI agent shows captured uniforms, belt containing money, wooden blocks loaded with hidden detonator caps, pens and pencils that contain incendiaries to start fires. An indendiary pencil is demonstrated. Seven U.S. Army Generals, appointed by President Roosevelt to hear the case, are seen outside the court building. The Generals enter the court. Two high ranking U.S. officers appointed to defend the accused are seen as they enter the court. Prisoners enter the court, escorted by guards. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, John Edgar Hoover, enters the courtroom. The officers sit. Attorney General of the United States Francis Beverley Biddle present and seen during court proceedings. Prisoners sit during the trial. (World War II period).
Allied troops during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A United States Army medic gives first aid to wounded soldiers. Three Nazi German prisoners are captured by U.S. 3rd Battalion and U.S. 16th Regiment troops. Blood plasma given to the wounded. Soldiers huddle together on a small beach. The three Nazi prisoners are seated separately. The soldiers dig a foxhole in the foreground. One soldier in the foxhole in the background. The soldiers prepare dynamite fuses.
Depicts activities of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Major General Rider of U.S. 34th Infantry Division speaks to Colonel Butler Commander of 168th Infantry Division at Alvignano, Italy. U.S. troops advance towards Dragoni. U.S. Army 36th Artillery soldiers fire artillery, supporting the 45th Division, in an assault on the last line of hills leading to the Volturno Valley. A soldier gives water to an injured soldier on a stretcher. Soldiers carry injured on a stretcher. Japanese-American soldiers of the United States Army 100th Infantry Division arrive. They stand in a line and are served food. The troops eat their food. View of a dead German soldier, and of other German soldiers as they surrender to U.S. Army forces. U.S. 3rd Division troops fire artillery at Dragoni. Smoke rises in the foreground. A map of Italy showing Dragoni. The troops advance and the 168th Division is seen occupying Dragoni on the next day, without opposition. U.S. soldiers escort some German soldier prisoners of war from the German 3rd Panzer Grenadier and the 26th Panzer Divisions. A German soldier treats an injured fellow prisoner. Italian civilian refugee men and women walk in a roadway and are evacuated to the rear.
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